Montz v. Moran
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Clinton Circuit Court. — Eon. A. D. Burnes, Judge. The court having rendered a premature judgment at the September, 1911, term of court, it had no authority at a subsequent term to set aside that judgment and render another and an entirely different judgment. Courts at a subsequent term cannot cor-rect the mistakes of the judge or render a judgment different from that actually rendered at the previous term.
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Appeal from Clinton Circuit Court. — Eon. A. D. Burnes, Judge. The court having rendered a premature judgment at the September, 1911, term of court, it had no authority at a subsequent term to set aside that judgment and render another and an entirely different judgment. Courts at a subsequent term cannot cor-rect the mistakes of the judge or render a judgment different from that actually rendered at the previous term. Burnsiae v. Wand, 170 Mo. 543. “A court cannot at a subsequent term change its- judgment to one which it neither rendered nor intended to render.” Ross v. Ross, 83 Mo. 100. “As…
1Opinion of the CourtParis, J.
Plaintiff sued defendant in equity to cancel a deed. Defendant took leave to plead at the April term, 1911, but failing to do so a judgment by default, upon its face final, was rendered against him at the September term, 1911, the same being the term at which the default was entered. [To distinguish it we will refer to this as the September judgment.]
At this September term and within four days after the rendition of the judgment aforesaid, defendant came in and filed a motion for a new trial and a motion in arrest of judgment. The case was then continued, specifically because of the pendency…
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