<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>BENIN J.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify">These are two applications before the court both of which are seeking to amend portions of the pleadings. The first one was put in by the co-defendants, and the second by the plaintiff. The brief facts of this part-heard case are the following: The plaintiff, as the customary successor and administrator of the estate of the late S W D Gandaa, sued the defendant, an elder of the Gandaa family, who is also a chief, on the principal contention that the latter was interfering with his management of the deceased&#x27;s estate. The children and wife of the deceased were, on their own application, joined to the suit as the first to seventh and eighth co-defendants respectively. It appears from the case docket that since being joined to the suit no pleadings were filed on behalf of the co-defendants. If I understood their counsel rightly, the statement of defence adequately covered the children (the first seven co-defendants) herein. The amendment thus sought was just to restate their posi…</p>