Case ID: me_6/html/0415-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wright vs. Wright.
    An error in the taxation of costs, by tho omission of an item, may bo corrected, after the issuing of execution, if there is any thing in tho caso to amend by ; it being the misprison of tho clerk.
    In this case judgment was rendered in this court at May term, 1829, upon a report of referees appointed under a rule of court. In making up the costs, the costs of reference were accidentally omitted ; and execution was duly issued in .May 1829.
    
      Willis now moved that the judgment might be corrected as to the costs, by adding the costs of reference; and produced the execution, unsatisfied except by some partial voluntary payments.
    
      Greenleaf opposed the amendment as irregular, and going to alter a judgment, which, after term, could be corrected only by review or writ of error.
   But the Court sustained the motion, observing that the mistake, being a misprision of the clerk in the taxation of costs, might be amended by the award.