Court Opinion

ID: 7091775
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 12:06:48.007789+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:13:06.967526
License: Public Domain

Wright, C. J.
It is very evident that appellant seeks to reverse this judgment, upon the claimed ground that a portion of plaintiff’s account, and upon which he recovered, was made and contracted on Sunday. To this appellee well responds that the return of the justice nowhere shows this to be the case. There is what is called a bill of exceptions, signed by the justice, which tends in some degree to show that a part of the account was made on that day, but it is so contradictory and ambiguous in its language, that the court below could disregard it, and especially when there was nothing in the justice’s return to support it.
The plaintiff had a right to amend his account or cause of action, or at least the justice did not abuse the discretion given to him, in permitting the amendment. If defendant was taken by surprise by the amendment, the parties, if satisfied of that fact, should have continued the cause. In no event, however, would the amendment have the effect of entitling defendant to have the cause of action struck from the files. He might be entitled to a more specific statement of the account, as to dates, if he had asked it.
Judgment affirmed.