15 Kan. 216 | Kan. | 1875
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This was an action in the nature of an action of ejectment, brought by Cynthia Jackson and others against George F. Latta. The plaintiffs claim as heirs of the original' patentee, Thomas Jackson. The defendant claims under a sheriff’s deed, executed June 13th 1859, to Asa Hairgrove, on a supposed judgment rendered in favor of said Hairgrove and against said Thomas Jackson and others. On the trial in the court below, after the plaintiffs had introduced their evidence and rested their case, the defendant introduced said sheriff’s deed in evidence, showing a regular chain of title from Hairgrove to himself. The sheriff’s deed was of course sufficient evidence, prima facie, to show that the title to the property in controversy had passed from Jackson to Hairgrove. (Ogden
We should think from the record brought to this court that a judgment had in fact been rendered in the said case of “Hairgrove against Jackson and others,” but that it had never been entered of record on the journals ^ cour£_ think the evidence furnished by the record itself strongly proves this to be true. And if we are correct in all this, it would be an easy matter, ■in a proper proceeding, and with proper notice to all parties interested, to have the judgment that was actually rendered entered of record, nunc pro tunc. The verdict of the jury, and the paper signed by the judge, show what the judgment actually rendered but not entered was. And if such judg
The judgment of the court, below is reversed, and cause remanded for a new trial.