Hickman v. Fort Scott

Citations

• 141 U.S. 415
• 12 S. Ct. 9
• 35 L. Ed. 775
• 1891 U.S. LEXIS 2530

Syllabus

<p>An application by petition to a court of law, after its judgment has been reversed and a different judgment directed to be entered, to so change the record of the original judgment as to make a case materially different from that presented to the court of review, — there being no clerical mistake, and nothing having been- omitted from the record of the original action which the court intended to make a matter of record — was properly denied. Such a case does not come within the rule that a court, after the expiration of the term, may, by an order, nunc pro tunc, amend the record by inserting what had been omitted by the act, of the clerk or of the court.</p>