Sisson v. Leonard

FOSTER, Justice.

The chief question on this appeal relates to the power of a circuit court sitting in equity to grant a motion to amend nunc pro tunc a former decree signed by the judge and entered by substituting another in its place materially different, after the expiration of thirty days from its rendition.

The order granting the motion and thus amending the decree is not here under direct review as for any error, except such as may render it void on collateral attack.

A short recital of the status of the record is necessary to an understanding clearly of the question.

On May 27, 1939, a…