Riley v. Prudential Insurance

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 561
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 275

Syllabus

<p>Amendments — Practice, O. P. — Deprivation of substantial rights.</p> <p>While courts are disposed to be liberal in the allowance of amendments, either as to parties or pleadings, this is never done when the opposite party is deprived of any substantial rights.</p> <p>Limitation of action — Insurance—Amendment of record.</p> <p>A suit on a policy of insurance may not be amended so as to introduce a new party on the record as plaintiff, thereby giving the right to claim from the defendant company the stipulated amount of insurance as of the date when the suit commenced, said right being otherwise barred, by the lapse of .time, under the conditions of the policy.</p>