Mays v. United Natural Gas Co.

Citations

• 268 Pa. 325
• 112 A. 22
• 1920 Pa. LEXIS 686

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Amendment of statement — Pleading—Unsafe appliance — Negligence of vice-principal — Act of June 2k, 1895, P. L. 286 — -Change of cause of ■action — Statute of limitation.</p> <p>1. A plaintiff may amend his statement, so as to simplify his complaint, or render it more specific, but cannot shift his ground by introducing a new agency as the cause of the accident, when a suit thereon would be barred by the statute of limitations.</p> <p>2. Where a statement in trespass for personal injuries, instituted after the Act of June 24, 1895, P. L. 236, avers negligence in furnishing a chain of insufficient strength for a purpose intended, such statement cannot be amended more than two years after the accident, so as to charge the accident to the negligence of defendant’s vice-principal in fastening a chain to a beam.</p>