Dobson v. Dickson

Decided June 15, 1845

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1845-06-15

This proceeding was commenced before a justice of the peace, by the defendant in error, and was carried by certiorari to the Circuit Court of Randolph, on the petition of the plaintiffs in error. From the record of the judgment, certified by the justice, it appears that a judgment was rendered by him, for the defendant, against the plaintiff in error, for #49 62 1-2, besides costs.

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Decided 1845-06-15

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ORMOND, J.

¶1We cannot perceive, from any thing in the record, that the amendment was not fully authorized. It is evident from the record, that the clerk, in entering up the judgment, had connected this with another case, and thus produced the confusion that ensued. The parties appeared when the amendment was made, and if there was no sufficient evidence by which to amend the record, it should haye been shown by bill of exceptions.

¶2The judgment was properly entered against all the parties to the original judgment, before the justice of the peace, although one of them did not unite in the bond for the certiorari.

¶3Let the judgment be affirmed.