Opinion ID: 2828796
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Heading: The 2004 Judgment in Favor of the City Was Void.

Text: A judgment nunc pro tunc can correct a clerical error in the original judgment, but not a judicial one.11 An attempted nunc pro tunc judgment entered after the trial court loses plenary jurisdiction is void if it corrects judicial rather than clerical errors.12 “A clerical error is one which does not result from judicial reasoning or determination.”13 Even a significant alteration to the original judgment may be accomplished through a judgment nunc pro tunc so long as it merely 9 Tex. Dep’t of Transp. v. City of Sunset Valley, 146 S.W .3d 637, 644 (Tex. 2004). 10 W e have jurisdiction over this interlocutory appeal under Texas Government Code section 22.225(c) because of a conflict between the court of appeals’ decision and a decision of another court of appeals. See T EX . G O V ’T C O DE §§ 22.001(a)(2), .225(c). As explained below, the court of appeals’ misapplication of the good-faith purchaser doctrine is inconsistent with Wall v. Lubbock, 118 S.W . 886, 888 (Tex. Civ. App.— Austin 1908, writ ref’d). 11