Stamps Tire Company, Inc. v. Powers

Jordan, Judge.

“There is a well-recognized rule of law to the effect that courts of record retain full control over their own orders and judgments during the term at which they are entered, and in the exercise of a sound legal discretion may revise or vacate them, as the ends of justice may require, such discretion not being' controlled by courts of review unless manifestly and flagrantly abused. But the judgments and orders thus said to remain ‘in the breast of the court’ do not include judgments based upon the verdict of a jury,-which do not come within the scope of such plenary powers and…