Paul H. Jones and Pushmataha Plantation, Inc. v. Anderson-Tully Company

Appellants Jones and Pushmataha Plantations, Inc., referred to collectively herein as “Jones,” appeal the district court’s determination that a Motion for Correction of Judgment, filed pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(a) and pertaining to a judgment originally entered in April of 1977, involves substantive rights of the parties, and therefore is governed by Rule 60(b) and barred by the one-year statute of limitations contained therein. We affirm the district court.

In 1977 Jones and Anderson-Tully owned adjoining tracts of riparian land. The Mississippi River formed the southern…