Case Name: Risers & Ashley v. H. R. McLean
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1855-07
Citations: 10 La. Ann. 565
Docket Number: 
Parties: Risers & Ashley v. H. R. McLean.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 565–566

Head Matter:
Risers & Ashley v. H. R. McLean.
Plaintiffs appealed to correct an error which his attorney had made in omitting an item of plaintiffs’ account “ in writing up the judgment.” The Supreme Court corrected the error, but at plaintiffs’ costs.
from the District Court of Jackson, Bichardson, J.
Dejrese & Thompson, for plaintiffs and appellants.
It does not appear from the record that the application to amend the judgment was resisted in the Supreme Court.

Opinion:
Vookhies, J.
The plaintiffs and appellants complain of an error committed to their prejudice in the judgment rendered by the District Court. The error of which they complain is the omission of an item of one hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-nine cents of their claim. The evidence shows, that this error was committed by the plaintiffs' attorney in writing up the judgment. The correctness of this item is satisfactorily proved. We think the plaintiffs are entitled to the relief which they claim at our hands, but as the error in the judgment is the result of their own act or negligence, equity demands that they should bear the burden of the costs of this appeal.
It is therefore ordered and decreed, that the judgment of the District Court be amended, by adding thereto said sum of one hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-nine cents, with legal interest from judicial demand; and so amended, that said judgment be affirmed at the appellants' costs.