Wadsworth v. Boston Gas Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• running of limitation period does not prevent amendment to add party
• plaintiff may add or substitute defendant after running of statute if the original cause of action had been timely commenced and no new causes of action had been introduced
• “the law in this Commonwealth with respect to amendments is more liberal than elsewhere”
• “In general, the law in this Commonwealth with respect to amendments is more liberal than elsewhere, and cases from other jurisdictions are not in point”
• “[T]he law in this Commonwealth with respect to amendments is more liberal than elsewhere”
• held not an abuse of discretion to admit the words “illuminating gas” appearing in hospital records, but the issue in that case was not which chemical was involved, but rather what caused the gas to escape

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).