United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees & Railway Shop Laborers v. Kennedy

The Chancellor.

The complainants ask leave to amend by filing an amended bill of complaint as a substitute for the original bill heretofore filed. The defendants object to the granting of the leave because, they contend, the original bill is so defective in the signatures thereto and in the vertification thereof, and in the prayer for ultimate relief, that there cannot be said to be any bill before the court and, therefore, there can be nothing on which to predicate an amendment. Leave to amend is further objected to because, it is said, nowhere in the original bill does it appear that the…