Varnum v. Bissell

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Varnum v. Bissell

31 Mass. 191

CourtMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

DecidedSeptember 15, 1833

StatusPublished

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Bluebook

Varnum v. Bissell, 31 Mass. 191 (Mass. 1833).

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Opinion

But by the Court. The Court have clearly no authority to permit an amendment in the record of the Court of Common Pleas, even if the amendment in question were admissible if the parties were regularly before this Court. And on the other point, the Court are of opinion, that as the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas is erroneous upon the face of it, this Court ought not to affirm and make it the basis of a new judgment.

Complaint dismissed.

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But by the Court. The Court have clearly no authority to permit an amendment in the record of the Court of Common Pleas, even if the amendment in question were admissible if the parties were regularly before this Court. And on the other point, the Court are of opinion, that as the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas is erroneous upon the face of it, this Court ought not to affirm and make it the basis of a new judgment.

Complaint dismissed.

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31 Mass. 191, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/varnum-v-bissell-mass-1833.