Case ID: njl_11/html/0114-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles Idle vs. John Idle.
    This court will not grant a rule to compel an inferior court to certify a fact which contradicts the record of its proceedings. But where the record is ambiguous or equivocal, a rule to certify any matter which may be explanatory thereof.
    
      Sloan, moved to set aside a rule which had been obtained upon a justice to certify the time when the judgment was *93] entered ; *and insisted that the object of the rule was to call upon the justice to contradict his own record.
    
      W. Halsted resisted the application, and said that the object of the rule was not to contradict, but merely to explain the record which was ambiguous; and he read the transcript of the justice, and the rule taken, for the purpose of shewing that the answer to the rule would not contradict the record.
   By the Court.

We do not think there is anything in the transcript, conclusive upon the point the justice is called upon to certify. If the fact was unequivocally stated, we would not grant a rule to certify.

Motion denied.