Good Roads Machinery Co. v. Old Lycoming Township

Citations

• 25 Pa. Super. 156
• 1904 Pa. Super. LEXIS 32

Syllabus

<p>Townships — Supervisors—Power to borrow money — -Municipal indebtedness — Judgment—Amendment—Change of cause of action.</p> <p>Supervisors of a. township have no power to borrow money and give a judgment note therefor, for the purpose of paying off an ordinary promissory note given to a machinery company for a road grader. If judgment is entered on the judgment note, the plaintiff cannot, after he has taken an assignment of the promissory note, have the record amended so' that the suit shall be in the name of the machinery company as plaintiff to the use of himself. Such an amendment introduces a new cause of action, and is not permissible.</p>