Case Name: WEATHERS SMITH, vs. DANIEL HORNBACK
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1820-04-25
Citations: 3 A.K. Marsh. 379
Docket Number: 
Parties: WEATHERS SMITH, vs. DANIEL HORNBACK,
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 379–379

Head Matter:
WEATHERS SMITH, vs. DANIEL HORNBACK,
On a writ of error to reverse a judgment of the Bourbon cir-mit court.
If the writ of error relates exclusively to the original judg ment.and the assignment of errors to the commissioner’s report under the occupying claimant law, the errors assigned cannot be noticed, nor can the v. rit be amehded tom aire it ap. ply to the errors; it is only in cases where the writ is defective that it can be amended.
Hardin for plaintiff, Talbot for defendant.
25April,1820.

Opinion:
The Chief Justice
delivered the opinion.
The assignment of error in this case reíales exclusively to the judgment on the commissioner's report; but the wfit of error is to the judgment in ejectment, and cannot an-, thorise a revision of the judgment on the commissioner's report, or on examination of the errors assigned in relation to it^ Nor can the writ of error be so changed as to embrace the judgment on the commissioner's report; for the writ of error is not defective in itself, and strictly conforms to the record of the judgment in ejectment, and it is only where the writ of error is defective or does not agree with the record, that it can be amended. To change the writ, therefore, so as to to make it embrace the judgment on the commissioner's report, would, in effect, be giving to the plaintiff in error a new writ, and not amending the old one.
The judgment must be affirmed with costs.