Supervisors v. Durant
Supreme Court of the United States
Supervisors v. Durant, 76 U.S. 736 (1869)
Supervisors v. Durant
Opinion of the Court
subsequently delivered the opinion of the court, to the effect, that as to the entry which the court on motion allowed to be made in the journal nunc pro tunc, as the matter was one which arose from the inadvertence of the clerk, the entry was but common practice and matter of course, and that the amendment to the marshal's return was of daily practice also.
The judgment for the writ of attachment was accordingly
Affirmed.
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- An amendment by allowing, nunapro iunc, an entry, omitted at the proper time by inadvertence, in the journal record of the clerk, of the issue of a writ of peremptory mandamus; and an amendment by the marshal to his return, so as to show that he had exhibited the original writ to the party served, allowed as matters of common practice.