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Case No. 15,081.
    UNITED STATES v. FEARSON.
    [5 Cranch, C. C. 95.] 
    
    Circuit Court. District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1836.
    Judgment—Correction op—Mistake.
    The court will, at a subsequent term, correct a judgment entered by mistake for too large a sum.
    UNITED STATES (FEARSON v.). See Case No. 4,712.
    Debt on an administration bond [by the United States for the use of Keirle]. Judgment for the whole amount of the plaintiff’s, claim, when the estate was insolvent.
    Mr. Redin moved to quash
    the executions and correct the judgment, which was confessed at the last term, it having been entered for about $50 too much, as the defendant contends by mistake.
    Mr. C. Coxe, contra.
    A judgment on an administration bond cannot be for assets,. as in an action against an executor or administrator. The judgment must be absolute.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   THE COURT,

being satisfied that Mr. W.. L. Brent had confessed the judgment by-mistake, ordered it to be corrected.