Case Name: D. Greene v. J. Dodge and E. Coggswell
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1828-12
Citations: 3 Ohio 486
Docket Number: 
Parties: D. Greene v. J. Dodge and E. Coggswell.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cases decided in the supreme court of ohio : upon the circuit at the special sessions in Columbus
Volume: 3
Pages: 456–457

Head Matter:
D. Greene v. J. Dodge and E. Coggswell.
Motion to amend a general judgment at a subsequent term, so as to make it a judgment for defect in declaration, refused.
This is the same cause reported in 2 Ohio, 430. It now came before the court upon a motion to amend the judgment, entered generally for the defendants, at December te^pi, 1826, and enter it specially, as predicated upon a defect in the declaration.
Ewing, in support of the motion,
insisted, that the judgment actually pronounced, was not upon the case agreed, but upon a defect in the declaration, and that it ought to have been so entered, because, if' so entered, the plaintiff could sue another, but being general, it operated as a bar. He maintained that the object of justice required the amendment to be made, and that the court had power to allow it. He cited 6 Durnf. & East, 1, and 7 Id. 699.
Goddard and Nye, contra,
denied the power of the court to allow the amendment. They cited 1 Bac. 164, 166; amen, and Jeo. F. Cro. Eliz. 407; 1 Ohio, 375; Doug. 703.

Opinion:
Motion refused.