Goodwine v. Hedrick

This was an application to correct a clerical error in a decree of partition rendered in 1865. It was refused. There was a complaint and other pleadings, and various questions are attempted to be presented, arising upon them, but they will not be considered. The proceeding must be regarded as a mere motion, neither requiring nor justifying pleadings, as in an ordinary cause. Jenkins v. Long, 23 Ind. 460. The record of the partition suit was in evidence. Merely oral evidence was then offered to show what was the decree actually pronounced in that cause, and thus raise the presumption that…