"The test as to whether the amendment should be allowed is whether or not the defendants can amend without placing the plaintiff in such a position that he cannot be recouped, as it were, by any allowance of costs or otherwise."
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Pollock, B., Steward v. Metropolitan Tramways Co. (1885), 16 Q. B. D. 180.
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