Case ID: abb-pr_3/html/0103-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Brady, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HARDY a. SEELYE.
    
      New York Common Pleas;
    
    
      General Term, April, 1856.
    Justice’s Court.—Judgment.—Error in Amount.
    Even where a justice renders judgment to a wrong amount, through inadvertence, the Common Pleas have not power to correct the error ; they can only reverse the judgment.
    Appeal from a justice’s judgment.
   Brady, J.

The justice announced, on the conclusion of the trial before him, judgment for the plaintiff for the sum of $36, the parties being present; but he inadvertently entered judgment on the process for $13 90. The defendant was notified of this error, and to attend before the justice, to have it'corrected. He did attend, but refused to consent to the alteration, and the justice declined to make it, upon the ground that he had no authority to do it.

We have held that we have no power to give the judgment the justice should have rendered. We can only reverse the judgment, and allow a new action to be brought.

Judgment reversed.