56 S.E.2d 503 | Ga. | 1949
1. A judgment which follows a verdict that is in conformity with the issues made by the pleadings cannot, at a subsequent term, be amended on motion, where the matter sought by amendment concerns things that occurred subsequent to the judgment, or as to matters that could have been determined on the trial.
2. The final decree, which provided for distribution of the partnership assets, conformed to the verdict and judgment rendered in the case, and will not be disturbed.
Under order of the court, of which no complaint was made, the receiver sold all the assets of the partnership and made his report to the court. Phillips thereupon filed objections to the report, complaining that certain items of expense should be charged solely against the interest of Bowen. The receiver, in an amendment to the report, charged to Bowen's account several items that Phillips claimed should be so charged. After a hearing, the court entered a final decree distributing the proceeds, and adjudging that Phillips was entitled to $659.32, and that the same be credited against the judgment of Bowen against Phillips for $1500. Phillips assigned error on this final decree, and on the exceptions pendente lite.
1. "In respect to amendment of judgments, the general rule is, that after the expiration of the term at which the judgment was rendered it is out of the power of the court to amend it in any matter affecting the merits. This is especially true of any attempt to amend a judgment on the merits, based on events and facts subsequently transpiring. A judgment bears upon the matters in issue at the time of its rendition, and from the nature of things can not be amended so as to conform to facts not adjudicated at the time." Richards v. McHan,
2. The trial court, before entering a final decree providing for the distribution of the assets of the partnership by virtue of a sale by the receiver, had a hearing on the objections of Phillips to the final report; the main objection being that the court erred in approving that part of the receiver's report as to the respective value of each partner's interest in the partnership assets, upon which the ratio of final distribution was based.
A review of the evidence before the trial judge does not show that he committed any error in approving the final report of the receiver and in entering a final decree as to the distribution of the partnership assets, which distribution was in accordance with the verdict and judgment previously rendered.
Judgment affirmed. All the Justices concur.