Lasar

This is a motion of respondent for an order recalling the remittitur hereinbefore issued, because, as is contended, the clerk of this court inadvertently or improperly inserted in the judgment the words “ with costs.”

The action was “ claim and delivery,” and the verdict of the jury was in favor of the plaintiffs for the property sued for, or its value, which was found to be one thousand dollars. The clerk of the trial court, however, entered judgment against defendants for one thousand dollars, and not in the alternative. The defendants appealed from the judgment, and from an order denying a new trial; and this court, in its opinion in deciding the appeal, after holding that the judgment should have been in the alternative, said: “ This error, however, can be corrected by an amendment of the judgment,” and ordered judgment in these words: “ The order denying a new trial is affirmed, but the court below is directed to correct the judgment as entered, by making it conform to the verdict, and as so corrected it will stand affirmed.” (See Meads v. Lasar, 92 Cal. 221 .) This was a clear aqd quite important modification of the judgment; and the clerk of this court properly included…