45 Cal. 64 | Cal. | 1872
The order appealed from was lately affirmed here on the ground that it was not supported by a statement on appeal. The fact has since been suggested at the bar that this defect was cured by a stipulation between the counsel which was not called to our attention. W e take this occasion to say that it is the duty of counsel to see that the copies of the transcript intended for the members of the Court literally conform to the transcript filed in the office of the Clerk. In the great majority of cases we never see the transcript filed in the Clerk’s office, but depend entirely upon the copies sent to the consultation room for the use of the members of the Court. The latter are expected to be accurate in every respect, and unless their accuracy be assured, serious mistakes are liable to ensue.
Whatever conflict may be found (and it is certainly far from inconsiderable) between the authorities as to the right and duty of the trial Court to correct its records, in order to make them conform to the truth, and so prevent them from being turned into instruments of injustice, we think that it must be conceded that under no system of jurisprudence recognized among civilized people has it ever been permitted that a party who has by the mere misprision of the Clerk obtained against his adversary the entry of a judgment never, in fact, pronounced or rendered by the Court, should, while substantially admitting the fact of the mistake, retain its fruits.
The cases out of which controversies upon the subject have arisen are cases in which the judgment had in point of
Motion to set aside the order of affirmance denied.