Priest v. Axon

This action was entered at the September term of the Superior court for Kennebec county, 1897, and was continued from term to term until the December term of the same year, when, on motion of the defendant, a nonsuit was ordered. To this order no exceptions were taken. But at the June term of the court 1898, the presiding judge, on application of the plaintiff, ordered the action to be brought forward, and the nonsuit to be stricken off. To these orders the defendant excepted.

It is true that every court of record has power over its own records and proceedings to make them conform to its own…