Robertson v. Davis

The appellants bring this appeal contending that the trial judge, in this jury case, committed error when he allowed the appellees leave to amend their pleadings to include claims for rent, which had accrued from the institution of this suit to the day of trial. 1 In support of their efforts to obtain a reversal, appellants reason that because a suit for rent involves an independent cause of action in assumpsit for each rental payment as it becomes due, the monthly rent obligations which have accrued in this instance subsequent to the institution of suit cannot be appended to it. This is so,…