17 Mo. 507 | Mo. | 1853
delivered the opinion of the court.
The duties of the county court are various. Some of them are judicial; some are merely administrative. When a judicial act is done, its errors can only be corrected in the mode pointed out by law. It is not in the power of the court at a subsequent term to vacate or annul it. But if the county court, in its administrative capacity, does an act which should after-wards be deemed unwise, inexpedient or exceeding its authority,
The other judges concurring, the judgment will be reversed, and the cause remanded.