Wright v. Standard Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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• granting leave to amend “‘to allow plaintiff to sue as executrix” after she was “appointed [as] executrix of her husband’s will”
• denying motion to dismiss plaintiff’s wrongful death claim because “lateness in obtaining and pleading her appointment as executrix is the kind of technical mistake apparently contemplated by Rule 17(a
• permitting plaintiff to amend complaint upon appointment as executrix almost three years after suit because “[p]laintiff’s lateness in obtaining and pleading her appointment as executrix is the kind of technical mistake apparently contemplated by Rule 17(a)”
• finding no prejudice where “[n]o [party] has PAGE 8 – OPINION AND ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS FOR been misled in the slightest degree as to the nature of the claim or the issues at stake”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).