Macauley v. Ryan
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, Dennis Ryan, from a determination of the District Court of Ramsey County, John W. Willis, J., made April 29, 1893, allowing plaintiff to amend her complaint.
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Appeal by defendant, Dennis Ryan, from a determination of the District Court of Ramsey County, John W. Willis, J., made April 29, 1893, allowing plaintiff to amend her complaint. The plaintiff, Harriet Macauley, by her complaint, alleged that on December 31, 1887, she sold and transferred to defendant one hundred shares of the capital stock of the People’s Bank and that he ’ agreed to pay her therefor $5,375, that he had paid only $500 and she demanded judgment for the balance with interest. Defendant ■denied that he purchased the stock. He alleged that it was pledged to the Bank as…
1Opinion of the CourtGileillan, C. J.
This case was tried by the court, without a jury. ■On the trial, after the parties had submitted their evidence and summed up the case, the court intimated how it would decide it, whereupon the plaintiff asked leave to amend her complaint so, .as defendant contends, as to allow the setting up of an entirely dif*509ferent cause of action from that in the original complaint. The court announced that it granted the motion on certain conditions,, among them that plaintff should be allowed thirty days within which to amend the complaint, and the defendant was allowed three' months within which to…
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