Douglass v. McNamee

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Cunningham, J.:

This was an action in ejectment. Plaintiff’s title depended upon the validity and force of a tax deed. Judgment was rendered against him. The record shows that the tax deed upon which he relied was executed before the date of the sale for *475taxes upon which it was based. It is insisted that the date of the deed, as shown by the record, is a clerical error; that notice must be taken that the date of the deed, as shown by the record, was erroneously stated by the scrivener.

It is true that a court may ignore and amend clerical errors, where…