Dorsey v. Black

Jackson, Judge.

A motion was made in the justice’s court to enter up judgment, nuno pro tunc, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in 1864. The justice refused to grant the motion, and the plaintiff, J. W. Black, carried the case by certiorari to the superior court. That court sustained the certiorari, and passed an order for a new trial, and directing the justice to “enter and sign up judgment, nunc pro tunc, for the plaintiff for principal, interest and costs.” The defendant appeals to this court, and assigns for error: first, that the court erred in this, that the statute, in cases where the…