Nash v. Adams
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on the case, brought to the term of the superior court for the county of New London, holden in September, 1851. The declaration originally contained three counts.
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This was an action on the case, brought to the term of the superior court for the county of New London, holden in September, 1851. The declaration originally contained three counts. In the first count, it was alleged that the defendants were carriers of goods and chattels for him from the city of Norwich, in the state of Connecticut, to the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, and that on the 8th day of October, 1850, the plaintiff delivered to them a bag containing 207 oz. and 10. pwts. of placer gold, marked U. S. Mint, Pa., to be conveyed from said Norwich to the U. S. Mint…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The objection urged against the amendment of the declaration in this case is, that it changed the ground of the action ; its form was confessedly preserved. The statutes of amendment, and the decisions upon them, in other states, which have been very elaborately examined by the *38defendants’ counsel, obviously furnish but little light for our guidance in expounding our own statute on that subject. Ours is a very ancient law, and has continually been more and more liberally expounded, so as to further the beneficial purpose intended by it, which was to prevent the plaintiff from being put to a…
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