Swan v Swan

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date08 January 1819
Date08 January 1819
CourtExchequer

English Reports Citation: 146 E.R. 1281

IN THE COURT OF EXCHEQUER AND EXCHEQUER CHAMBER

Swan
and
Swan

Commented on, In re Leslie, Leslie v French, 1883, 23 Ch. D. 552, 564. Followed, Sinclair v. James, [1894] 3 Ch. 556; Hill v. Hickin, [1897] 2 Ch. 581.

v. swan. 13th Nov. 1H20. 8th January 1819. - Where it is stated by the I answer to a bill filed for a partition that the Defendant has laid out money in ;- building land improving the premises, the Court will not decree a partition, with-j out a reference to the Master to take an account. - A mortgagee is not a necessary 1 party to i suit for partition, because he is entitled to the whole. - Money laid out in improving the premises, does not, however, in strictness, create a lien on the premises; but it is a sufficient ground for a Court of Equity to refuse to interfere. - A supplemental bill, filed after the hearing of the original bill, stating additional facts which arose and were known to the Plaintiff before he filed his original bill, and praying that other matters might be taken into the account ordered to be taken before the Master, is clemurrable, as not being the proper course to be pursued by the Plaintiff in such a case. -He should have applied to the Court for leave to amend, or to file a supplemental bill, before the cause had been suffered to proceed so far. [Commented on, In i'e Leslie, Leslie v. French, 1883, 23 Ch. D. 552, 504. Followed, : Sinclair v. James, [1894] 3 Ch. 5BG ; Hill v. Hickin, [1897] 2 Ch. 581.] ; The Plaintiff in this case filed a bill against the Defendant for a partition of certain ' *' In Doru.li v. O'Reilly and Others (ante, vol. iii. p. 250), however...

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    ...23 ER 480. The only other remedy was also provided in equity, where an account lay as incidental to a suit for partition: Swan v. Swan (1819) 8 Price 518, 146 ER 1281; Pascoe v. Swan (1859) 27 Beav 508, 54 ER 201; Leigh v. Dickonson (1884) 15 QBD 60, [1881-5] All ER 1099; or in proceedings ......
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    • 15 June 1977
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