222; Veaszie v. Marrett, 6 Allen (Mass.) 372. —New assignment. Under the common-law practice, where the declaration in an action is ambiguous, and the defendant pleads facts which are literally an answer to it, but not to the real claim set up by the plaintiff, the plaintiff's course is to reply by way of new assignment; i. c., allege that he brought his action not for the ‘cause supposed by the defendant, but for some other cause to which the plea has no ap lication. 3 Steph. Comm. 507; Sweet. See ishop v. Travis, 51 Minn. 183, 53 N. W. 461. —New cause of action. With reference to the amendment of pleadings, this term may refer to a new state of facts out of which liability is claimed to arise, or it may refer to parties who are alleged to be entitled under the same state of facts, or it may embrace both features, Love v. Southern R. Co., 108 Tenn, 104, 65 S. W. 475, 55 L. R. A. 471. Nelson v. First