Case ID: mo_1/html/0159-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cook, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Calloway v. Nifong.
    When one of two defendants dies, before a judgment rendered against both, the error can only be corrected in the Court where the judgment was rendered, by writ of error, coram nobis, as error, in fact, can only be corrected where it accrued.
    IN ERROR.
   Cook, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case, Nifong received judgment in the Madison Circuit Court, in an action of debt against Calloway and John McCabe; to reverse which judgment, Calloway brought his writ of error, and assigned error in fact, that his co-defendant died before judgment, to which, the defendant in error, pleads “ in millo est erratum,;” and the only question for the consideration of this Court, is, whether the error complained of, is one which this Court can correct? According to the established course of the common law, error in fact, can only be corrected in the Court where it accrued, or in which the record is: (5 Com’s. Dig. 695; 1 Stra. Rep. 606; 2 Bac. Abr. 216, Civil Edition.) In this case, the remedy must he by writ of error, coram nobis, in the Circuit Court, the record being in that Court.

The writ of error must be dismissed, with costs.