Case ID: mass_6/html/0223-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Whitwell, Plaintiff in Error, versus Joseph Atkinson.
    Error does not Jie for a mistake in casting interest upon a promissory note, whereby judgment is rendered for too small a sum; but the remedy is by petition for a new trial.
    This was a writ of error, brought to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for this county, rendered in favor of the plaintiff in error, who was also plaintiff in the original action.
    The error assigned was, that the judgment was rendered for too small a sum in damages, owing to a mistake in the calculation of the interest upon a promissory note, upon which the original action was brought.
    
      Townsend for plaintiff in error.
    
      Channing for defendant in error.
   Per Curiam.

This is no ground for a writ of error. We cannot furnish the remedy desired, upon this process. Let the plain tiff in error file his petition for a new trial under the statute, and if the facts suggested should be substantiated upon the hearing, a new trial will be granted.

Plaintiff in error nonsuit.