Escobar v. Escobar

SPEARS, Justice.

The issue in this appeal from the granting of a nunc pro tunc judgment is whether the trial court corrected a clerical or a judicial error. The trial court granted a motion for judgment nunc pro tunc to correct the acreage of an awarded tract of land. The court of appeals reversed the judgment, holding that the trial court improperly corrected a judicial error in the judgment. 699 S.W.2d 256. We reverse the court of appeals’ judgment and remand the cause to that court.

This case arose from a complex adverse possession case in which the trial court awarded hundreds of claimants…