Principle

CIVIL PROCEDURE – Pleadings – Amendment of Pleadings – When Amendment Will Be Refused on Appeal

Area of law
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Court
Supreme Court

Amendment on appeal will be refused if it seeks to set up an entirely new case different from that canvassed at trial. The appellate court will not permit a party to make a "fundamental roundabout" and re-write the issues joined at trial. The case must…

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