Chapin & Chapin, Inc. v. Texas Sand & Gravel Co.

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• allowing a party to amend its answer to include a verified denial
• refusal to allow defendant to amend pleading to add a verified denial, a procedural change, was an abuse of discretion
• “A party opposing a trial amendment does not have to prove prejudice or surprise if the amendment is a substantive one which changes the nature of the trial.”
• “If Texas Sand had relied upon the absence of a verified denial to the extent that it was unprepared to proceed to trial and would thus have been prejudiced by Chapin's amendment, it would have been entitled to a continuance.”
• allowing amendment to add verified denial to answer
• allowing amendment to add verified denial to answer

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