Rollins v. Board of Com'rs of Gunnison County
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. i This was an action by E. II. llollins & Son against the board of commissioners of Gunnison county, Colo., to recover on coupons cut from county bonds. At the trial the jury, by direction of the court, returned a verdict for defendant, and judgment was entered accordingly.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. i This was an action by E. II. llollins & Son against the board of commissioners of Gunnison county, Colo., to recover on coupons cut from county bonds. At the trial the jury, by direction of the court, returned a verdict for defendant, and judgment was entered accordingly. Plaintiffs thereupon sued out this writ of error, and they have now moved the court to make an order authorizing the court below to amend the bill of exceptions, so as to show whether or not it contains all the evidence produced at the trial.
1Per curiam
A motion is made in this case in behalf of the plaintiffs in error to enter an order authorizing the circuit court of the United States for the district of Colorado to amend lie bill of exceptions, as it appears in the record, so as to show whether the same does or does not contain all the evidence produced on tie trial of the case. This court has heretofore decided in Bank v. Perry, 32 U. S. App. 15, 14 C. C. A. 273, 66 Fed. 887, that a trial court has the power to correct its record so as to make it speak the truth when by mistake it speaks an untruth, even after the lapse of Lie term at…
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- Seymour & Sons v. Thomas Harrow Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1886
- Lincoln Nat. Bank v. PerryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1895
- Seig v. LongIndiana Supreme Court · 1880
- Whiting v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1893
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- First Nat. Bank of Denver v. WilderCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1900
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- Downing & Co. v. United StatesCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1925
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