SUPPLEMENTAL BILL. In Equity Practice. A bill brought as an addition to RD original bill to supply some defect in its original frame or structure which cannot be supplied by amendment. See 1 Paige, Ch. N. Y. 200 ; 15 Miss. 456 ; 22 Barb. N. Y. 161; 14 Ala. N. s. 147 ; 18 id. 771. It may be brought by a plaintiff or defendant, 2 Atk. Ch. 533 ; 2 Ball & B. Ch. Ir. 140 ; 1 Stor. C. C. 218, and as well after as before a decree, 3 Md. Ch. Dec. 306 ; 1 Maui, & G. 405 ; Story, Eq. Plead. 338 ; Hinde, Chanc. Pract. 43, but must be within a reasonable time, 2 Heist. Ch. N. J. 465.
" 2. It may he filed when a necessary paity has been omitted, 6 Madd. Ch. 369 ; 4 Johns. Ch. N. Y. 605, to introduce a party who has acquired rights subsequent to the -filing of the original bill, 3 Iowa, 472; when, after the parties are at issue and witnesses have been examined, some point not already made seems to be necessary, or some additional discovery is fourid reqnisite, 3 Atk. Ch. 110 ; 1 Paige, Ch. N. Y. 200 ; Cooper,. Eq. Plead. 73 ; when hew events referring to and eupporting the rights and interests already mentioned have occurred subsequently to the filing of tho bill, StOry, Eq. Plead. 336 ; 5 Beav.
253 ; 3 Hare, Ch. 39 ; 2 Md. Ch. Dec. 289 ; for the statement only of facts and circum stances material and beneficial to the merits, and not merely matters of evidence, 3 Stor.
C. C. 299; when, after a decision has been made on the original bill, it becomes neces sary to bring other matter before the court to get the full effect of it, Story, Eq. Plead.
336 ; 3 Atk. Ch. 170; -when a material fact, which existed before the filing of the bill, has been omitted, and it can no longer be in troduced by way of amendment, 3 Stor, C. C. 54; 2 Md. Ch. Dec. 303; Mitford, Chant:. Plead. 55, 61, 325 ; but only by special leave of court when it seeks to change the original structure of the bill and introduce a new and different case. 4 Sim. Ch. 76, 628 ; 3 Atk. Ch. 110 ; 8 Price, Exch. 518; 4 Paige, Ch. N. Y. 259 ; 2 Md. Ch. Dec. 42. See 2 Sninn. C. C. 316.
3. The bill must be in respect to the same title in the same person as the original bill. Story, Eq. Plead. 339.. , It must state the original bill, and the pro ceedings thereon; and when it is occasioned by an event which has occurred subsequently to the original bill, it must state that event and the consequent alteration with regard to the parties, In general, the supplemental bill must pray that all defendants appear and answer the charges it contains. Mitford, Chanc. Plead. Jerem. ed. 0 ; Story, Eq. Plead. 343.