¶1delivered the opinion op the court:
¶2This was an action against Thompson and his sureties upon his official bond to recover the balance of a note of four hundred and fifty dollars, with interest from the 25th da,y of February, 1856, credited by three hundred dollars paid May 12th, 1856, executed by J. T. Nantz to C. Weathers, and which, it is alleged in the petition, was lost to Weathers’ estate by negligence on the part of Thompson, as clerk of the Daviess circuit court, or his deputy, in omitting to enter judgment for said note in a suit on that and other claims brought by Weathers’ executor against Nantz.
¶3The circuit court sustained a demurrer to the petition and dismissed the action; and from that judgment this appeal is prosecuted.
¶4*560The petition does not allege corruption, or even facts constituting willful negligence on the part of the clerk, but seeks to recover simply on account of an error committed by mistake or oversight in the rendition of the judgment. .
¶5We are aware of no adjudication of this court, and have been referred to none, in which such a right of action has been held to exist; and we do not feel authorized in this case to establish such a precedent.
¶6It seems to us, that, in the absence of fraud, culpable negligence, or willful wrong, on the part of the clerk, the orders and judgments drawn by him, although erroneous and prejudicial to the rights of parties, are, when approved and signed by the court, to be presumed to be the acts of the court rather than the clerk, for which, for obvious reasons, and on well-settled principles, no right of action exists.
¶7Wherefore, the judgment is affirmed.