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Leave To Amend Complaint Should Have Been Granted

The Fourth Department reversed the trial court’s denial of a motion to amend a complaint, noting:

“Leave to amend a pleading should be freely granted in the absence of prejudice to the nonmoving party where the amendment is not patently lacking in merit… “.

… A “court should not examine the merits or legal sufficiency of the proposed amendment unless the proposed pleading is clearly and patently insufficient on its face” … .  Holst…v Liberatore…, CA 12-01575, 243, 4th Dept, 4-26-13

 

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