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Hart v. Potter

Citations

  • 80 Miss. 796

Syllabus

<p>Chancery Pleadings. Amendments. After submission of cause. Discretion of cowrt. When disallowance reversible error.</p> <p>The allowance of an application to amend a hill in equity, made after the submission of. the cause for final decision on the merits, is ordinarily in the discretion of the court; but it is reversible error to disallow such an amendment which simply seeks to plead a recorded deed, a necessary link in complainant’s chain of title to the land in controversy, where a new suit would probably be barred by limitation.</p>

Judges: Terrae

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