Court Opinion

ID: 8055459
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 04:32:18.166355+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:37:49.813175
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Kirkpatrick, C. J. — and Rossell, J.
— Were of opinion, that this was not the error of the court, but a misprision of the clerk, and amendable.
Pennington J.
— I have had some doubts as to the propriety of this amendment, it going to the introduction of a new judgment; but on a little inflection, [*] I concur with my hrethern. From the voluminous subject of amendment found in our law books, I think this rule is to be extracted, that where the court pronounces a wrong judgment, it can*747not be amended after the term; but the error of the clerk in recording the judgment pronounced, may; that is, the record may be so amended as to comport, with what was really and truly done.
Kirkpatrick, C. J. — That is the true rule.
By all the Court. — Let the amendment be made.