Sparrow v. Strong
Nevada Supreme Court
This was a motion made in the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada to correct what was alleged tobe a clerical error in a judgment entered up in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Nevada. The other facts necessary to understand the points decided are stated in the opinion of the Court. This Court is the successor to the Territorial Supreme Court.
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This was a motion made in the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada to correct what was alleged tobe a clerical error in a judgment entered up in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Nevada. The other facts necessary to understand the points decided are stated in the opinion of the Court. This Court is the successor to the Territorial Supreme Court. (Constitution of Nevada ; Laws of the United States, Vol. 13, p. 441; Freeborn v. Smith, 2 Wallace, 160 ; Hastings v. Johnson, 2 Nevada.) The clerical error in the judgment is apparent on its face, and should therefore be corrected. (Baleh v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Beatty, O. J., Lewis, J., concurring.
In this case there is an application made to us by respondent to correct what is alleged to be a clerical mistake in entering up a judgment of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Nevada, rendered in 1863.
There are various objections made by appellants to our granting the relief sought by the motion. Appellants contend that this Court is not the custodian of the records of the late Territorial Court; is not the successor of that Court, and has no jurisdiction over the parties to the record. In the case of Hastings v. J. Neely Johnson, (2d Vol.…
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