Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1833

Varnum v. Bissell

Varnum v. Bissell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided September 15, 1833
31 Mass. 191

Varnum v. Bissell

Opinion of the Court

But by the Court. The Court have clearly no authority to permit an amendment in the record of the Court of Common Pleas, even if the amendment in question were admissible if the parties were regularly before this Court. And on the other point, the Court are of opinion, that as the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas is erroneous upon the face of it, this Court ought not to affirm and make it the basis of a new judgment.

Complaint dismissed.

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