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Supreme Court· 4/6/1885

Ex Parte Morgan

Citations

  • 114 U.S. 174
  • 5 S. Ct. 825
  • 29 L. Ed. 135
  • 1885 U.S. LEXIS 1748

Syllabus

<p>A writ of mandamus may be used to require an inferior court to decide a mat- • ter within its jurisdiction, and pending before it for judicial determination, but nqt-to control the decision.</p> <p>The plaintiff -In the suit below, believing that the judgment as recorded did not conform to the finding, moved the court to amend it in that particular. The courtjheard and denied the motion: Held, That this was a judicial act which-could not be reviewed by mandamus.</p>

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  • referring to the clerk’s “ministerial act of recording a judgment” as the “entry” of the judgment

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