103 Ala. 104 | Ala. | 1893
The petitioner, D. M.Nicrosi, made and filed in the circuit court of Montgomery, an affidavit for an attachment against The Roswald Grocery Company to enforce a landlord’s lien for rent. In said affidavit, the attachment bond and in the writ of attachment the said company is described as a corporation, i. e., in each of these papers that company is referred to as “The Roswald Grocery Company, a corporation.” It having developed that The Roswald Grocery Company was not in fact a corporation, nor even a partnership, but the name under and by which Esther Roswald, a married woman, having the right to engage in business, carried on a grocery business in the house rented from plaintiff, and which, through her agent, she signed to the notes for the rent sought to be recovered, the plaintiff moved for leave to file an amended affidavit and bond and to amend the attachment writ so that the words “Esther Roswald, a married woman, doing business by the written consent of her husband, filed and recorded in the probate court of Montgomery county, under the name and style of‘The Roswald Grocery Company’ should appear in each in lieu of the words ‘The Roswald Grocery Company, a corporation.’ ” The court denied this motion, and we are now asked to issue a writ of mandamus to the judge thereof directing the allowance of the proposed amendments.
The application for mandamus will be granted.