Sweetzer v. Mead

By the Court:

The question of the propriety of the amendment made by the Circuit Judge to Ms finding of facts, can not be passed upon here. It has been frequently held that a judge may, after the lapse of one or many terms, amend the *34verdict upon the judge’s notes or other proof of the evidence given on the trial, sp as to apply such verdict to the proper counts, for the furtherance of justice. So amendments to bills of exceptions have been made after the lapse of a long time, and judges have been compelled by mandamus to make them where it was shown that they were in accordance with the…