67 So. 976 | Ala. | 1915
The appellee, J. M. Robinson, Norton & Co., a corporation, filed its suit on the common counts against appellant, J. M. Head. The complaint describes the plaintiff therein as “J. M. Robinson, Norton & Co., a corporation.” Appellant demurred to the complaint because it. failed to aver whether the plaintiff was “a foreign corporation or a domestic corporation.” The court overruled defendant’s demurrers, from which judgment appellant appealed under the provisions of an act creating the Andalusia city court of law and equity, permitting appeals from judgments on pleadings in civil causes.
In Western Railway of Alabama v. Sistrunk, 85 Ala. 352, 5 South. 79, the original summons and complaint described the defendant as “the Western Railway of Alabama.” The attorney for the defendant as amicus curiae moved to strike the case from the docket on the ground that the defendant did not appear to be a legal person capable of being sued; but the court overruled the motion and allowed the plaintiff to amend the summons and complaint by adding the words “a body corporate” after the name of the defendant, which was sanctioned by this court.
■ In Southern Life Insurance Co. v. Roberts, 60 Ala. 431, the complaint Avas, “The plaintiff, the Southern
A suit was commenced in Rosenberg v. Claflin Co., 95 Ala. 249, 10 South. 521, in the name of “H. B. Claflin Company,” and the plaintiff was permitted to file an amended affidavit “in which its corporate character was duly stated” as a body corporate. This court held, on the authority of Southern Life Insurance Co. v. Roberts, supra, and Alabama, Conference v. Price, 42 Ala. 47, that “such an amendment is a mere correction of the description of a plaintiff, already named,” and is not a departure. So in Lewis Lumber Co. v. Camody, 137 Ala. 578, 35 South. 126, where the complaint describes the defendant as “the Lewis Lumber Company, a firm composed of B. A. Lewis et al. and B. A. LeAvis, individually,” an amendment was allowed strik
On a second appeal in Manistee Mill Company v. Hobdy, 165 Ala. 411, 416, 51 South. 871, 873 (138 Am. St. Rep. 73), the court held: “That the entity sued * * * is the Manistee Mill Company, and whether it be a corporation, a copartnership, or a name assumed by an individual is a matter merely of description, as to Avhich an amendment may be made without changing the parties to the suit.”
, So far as appears from this complaint, defendant has the same matter of defense, whether plaintiff be a domestic or a foreign corporation.
Affirmed.