Case ID: dc_1/html/0433-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Duckett, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Pierce v. Turner.
    A clerical mistake in entering a judgment may be amended at a subsequent term, and an execution issued thereon may be quashed.
    This was a motion to set aside a judgment of last term,obtained by mistake of the clerk in entering an appearance of R,. I. Taylor, and a confession of judgment in this suit, instead of another, and to quash the execution thereon, there being a good defence — the defendant being sued as executrix de son tort for holding negroes under a marriage settlement.
    
      Mr. Swann, for the plaintiff,
    admitted the facts.
    Judgment set aside, and execution quashed.
   But

Duckett, J.,

doubted whether the Court could, at this term, set aside a judgment of the last term, even upon a clerical mistake.