11 Mich. 56 | Mich. | 1862
So far as the bill seeks to revive the original cause of Hernán C. Palmer, against the defendants, which had become abated by his death, it was- entirely unnecessary. The order of July-24th, 1861, substituting the administratrix as complainant, of itself, operated as a revivor: and no actual
So far as the present bill is confined to these objects it was the necessary and proper course to give him the benefit of the former suit. In these respects the bill is not a mere supplemental bill, but an original bill in the nature of a bill of supplement and revivor: — Daniel’s Ch. Pr. 1666, 1685 to 1688, Ibid. 1697 and 1698; Sedgwick v. Cleveland., 7 Paige, 293. So far as it is based upon and recites the original cause, it is in the nature of a supplemental bill: so far as it seeks to revive or restore the original cause which had become defective by the assignment of the interest of the administratrix, it would seem to be in the nature of a bill of revivor: but so far as it relates to the assignment and the present complainant, it is entirely original.
Being an original bill it did not not require the previous leave of the Court to its filing: — Sedgwick v. Cleveland, supra; and very clearly it was not necessary to be filed by the solicitors in the original suit, as seems to have been supposed by the defendants’ solicitor.
Whether the present bill would be sufficient on demur