Case ID: mich_49/html/0628-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Garrett B. Gray v. Saginaw Circuit Judge.
    
      Motions to amend judgment — Laches.
    Mandamus to compel tlie amendment of a judgment for tlie defendant in replevin so as to require return of tlie property, was denied where tlie application was not made until several terms of court after execution liad been satisfied, nor until a new judge was elected.
    Mandamus to compel respondent to amend a judgment in replevin so as to require the return of the property to relator, who was the defendant in the action and who prevailed therein. The action was originally brought in justice’s court to obtain possession of a mare held b.y relator ■■and the mare was taken on the writ, and the plaintiff had judgment. On appeal this judgment was reversed, but the judgment then entered for defendant did not order the return of the mare. More than a year later, and after five terms of court had intervened and another judge had come into office, relator moved for the amendment of the judgment by the addition of an order for the return of the property. The motion was granted, as for the correction of a clerical error, but the order was afterward set aside, and on a re-argument the application was denied. Belator then proceeded by mandamus.
    Submitted and denied June 16.
    
      O. F. Wisner for the writ.
    
      Albert Trash against.
   Per Curiam.

If the relator originally had any right to this remedy, which we do not determine, we are satisfied that by means of the delay and the proceeding on the execution he has waived it.

Writ must be dismissed with costs.