4.36.210 - Variance in action to recover personal property. - Washington Statutes

Variance in action to recover personal property.

Where the plaintiff in an action to recover the possession of personal property on a claim of being the owner thereof, shall fail to establish on trial such ownership, but shall prove that he is entitled to the possession thereof, by virtue of a special property therein, he shall not thereby be defeated of his action, but shall be permitted to amend, on reasonable terms his complaint, and be entitled to judgment according to the proof in the case.

[Code 1881 § 108; 1877 p 23 § 108; 1869 p 27 § 106; 1856 p 10 § 11; RRS § 302.]