Case ID: la-app_6/html/0532-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MOUTON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. -
    First Circuit
    ALBANY BANK v. LACOUR
    (June 7, 1927. Opinion and Decree.)
    
      (Syllabus by the Editor.)
    
    1. Louisiana Digest — Appeal—Par. 759.
    Clerical errors made through inadvertence will be corrected to conform to the pleadings.
    Appeal from the Parish of Pointe Coupee. Hon. W. C. Carruth, District Judge.
    Action by Albany Bank against Arthur B. Lacour et al.
    There was judgment for defendants and plaintiff appealed.
    Judgment affirmed.
    Laycock, Borron & Laycock, of Baton Rouge, attorneys for plaintiff, appellant.
    M. T. Hewes, of New Roads, attorney for defendant, appellees.
   MOUTON, J.

In this case the demand is for $500.00 with interest and attorney’s fees. Through inadvertence a judgment was rendered against defendants for $1900.00 as being the main amount claimed.

The judgment will have to be corrected to conform to the pleadings.

It is therefore adjudged, ordered a,nd decreed that the judgment rendered below for $1900.00 be and is hereby reduced to the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) with same rate of interest and attorney’s fees on said reduced amount, as was decreed below, and as thus reduced, amended and corrected, the judgment be affirmed in all other respects.