Court Opinion

ID: 6427306
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 12:05:04.030757+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:52:02.875884
License: Public Domain

Holmes, C. J.
The amendment allowed in the Superior Court amounted only to a more formal claim of a set-off which was alleged and claimed in the Municipal Court. But even if it had been new matter, the Superior Court had the same power to allow it to be pleaded by amendment that it would have had if the case had begun there. Pub. Sts. c. 167, § 42. The provision in Pub. Sts. c. 155, § 35, is not intended to limit the power of the Superior Court to allow amendments in cases brought to it by appeal, and that in Pub. Sts. c. 168, § 16, requiring the declaration in set-off to be filed with the answer, does not prohibit the court from allowing it to be filed as an amendment at a later time. Butterfield v. Byron. 153 Mass. 517, 524.

Exceptions overruled.