The original case was on trial on the 27th of November, 1922, to a jury. On the 28th of November, at the close of all the testimony, plaintiff and defendant each filed a motion for a directed verdict in their favor. The court discharged the jury, and on the 6th 0f December ruled on said motions, overruling the defendant’s motion and sustaining the plaintiff’s motion for a directed verdict, and on that date dictated to the official shorthand reporter the following:
“Ruling and Order of Court.
“At the close of all the testimony in said case, both plaintiff and defendant have each made a motion to direct a verdict; and the court having announced that one motion or the other would have to be sustained, and having discharged the jury, and the court now being fully advised in the premises, orders and adjudges that the defendant’s motion be overruled, and that the plaintiff’s motion for a directed verdict bp, and the same is, hereby sustained.
“And it is ordered and adjudged that the plaintiff have and recover of the defendant the sum of $500 and interest thereon at 6 per cent from September 15, 1920, amounting at this time to the sum of $565, together with costs of this action, and not including any attorney fees.
“To all of which the defendant at the time duly excepts.”
The shorthand notes were filed with the clerk on said date of December 6, 1922. The record rested in this condition until November, 1923, when plaintiff discovered that no judgment entry had been made.
On the 13th day of that month, he filed a motion for a nunc pro tunc judgment entry, to complete the record, setting out the facts above related, and alleging that, through oversight and error, same had not been transcrip ted to the clerk of the court, and no judgment had been entered thereon; and asked that a nunc pro tuna order be made, directing the clerk to enter judgment in conformity with the record as shown by the notes of the official shorthand reporter, transcript of which was attached to the motion.
On the 19th of November, 1923, defendant filed resistance to *933 said motion for the nunc pro tunc order. The principal part of this motion is a review of the merits of the original controversy, a claim that the court lost jurisdiction by discharge of the jury before the ruling on the motion to direct, and admission that the presiding judge did dictate to the shorthand reporter the ruling attached to plaintiff’s motion; and defendant alleges that, if a nunc pro time order were now to be entered, it would deprive the defendant of his right of appeal.
On the 31st of December, 1923, this motion and resistance having been fully submitted, the court made the following order, judgment, and ruling thereon:
“The motion for nunc pro tunc judgment is overruled for the reason that to now enter judgment nunc pro tunc would prevent appeal from the proceedings prior thereto. The submission is hereby set aside, and the case reinstated for trial in regular order, as though no submission had ever been had; and plaintiff excepts.”
It is fundamental law that courts possess the inherent power to correct the record and enter judgments
mmc pro tunc,
and the lapse of time is no obstacle to the exercise of such power.
Snyder v. Fahey,
This right to so enter a nunc pro tunc judgment exists when there is anything in the record of the case which shows that a judgment was announced by the court. Even the minutes of the judge’s calendar, while not forming a part of the record, may be accepted as evidence tending to show that a judgment was actually rendered. Mahaska County v. Bennett, supra. The shorthand notes of the official reporter, when filed, become a part of the record. Section 3675, Code of 1897 (Sections 11456, 11457, Code of 1924).
While, under
Snyder v. Fahey,
supra, notice to the adverse party is necessary, it is waived in the present case by the de
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fendant’s-appearance and filing resistance to the motion. Under this- line of authority, there can be no question but that the district court had the power to make this
nunc pro tunc
judgment, as prayed. The court, as shown by the record, was of the opinion that it ought not to be made, however, because it would deprive the defendant of his right of appeal. While it is usually the rule that
nunc pro tunc
orders for judgment, when made, relate back, and make the judgment of validity from the date when it should have been entered, yet this is not true for all purposes. It is settled in this state that, in determining the right of appeal, this rule has no application. In determining the commencement of the time for appeal, the date when the judgment is actually spread upon the record is the date from which this time is calculated. See
Hoffman-Bruner Granite Co. v. Stark,