Case ID: ind-app_80/html/0596-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Remy, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Rensselaer v. Elliott et al.
    [No. 11,643.
    Filed December 14, 1923.]
    
      Judgment.—Motion to Modify.—Time of Filing.—A motion to modify a judgment for anything other than a clerical error in ■ entering it must he filed during the term of court at which the judgment was rendered.
    From Jasper Circuit Court; T. B. Cunningham, Special Judge.
    Action by Asa Elliott and another against Silas Toombs and others, in which the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Rensselaer filed a cross-complaint. From an adverse judgment, the bank appeals.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    
      D. Delos Dean and John A. Dunlap, for appellant.
    
      William L. Wood and Hanley & Hanley, for appellee.
   Remy, C. J.

The trial court overruled appellant’s motions asking for a new trial and for a modification of the judgment. These rulings are assigned as errors. The only reason for a new trial presented is that the decision of the court is not sustained by sufficient evidence. We do not deem it necessary to discuss the evidence; it is enough to say that we have carefully examined the same,- and find that the court’s decision is in all things sustained thereby.

The motion to modify the judgment was not to correct a mere clerical error, but called for a material alteration of an essential judicatory part of the judgment. Such a motion must be made during the term of court at which the judgment was rendered. Cauthorn v. Bierhaus (1909), 44 Ind. App. 362, 88 N. E. 314; Johnson v. Foreman (1900), 24 Ind. App. 93, 56 N. E. 254; Union Trust Co. v. Curtis (1914), 182 Ind. 61, 105 N. E. 562, L. R. A. 1915A 699. The judgment was rendered May 5, 1922. The motion to modify was not filed until September 12, 1922, which was at a subsequent term of court. The court did not err in overruling the motion.

Affirmed.