{ "id": 1734329, "name": "Southern Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. Co. v. Robinson", "name_abbreviation": "Southern Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. v. Robinson", "decision_date": "1964-05-18", "docket_number": "5-3264", "first_page": "159", "last_page": "162", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "238 Ark. 159" }, { "type": "parallel", "cite": "379 S.W.2d 8" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "76 A.L.R. 2d 983", "category": "reporters:specialty", "reporter": "A.L.R. 2d", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "76 A.L.R. 2d 978", "category": "reporters:specialty", "reporter": "A.L.R. 2d", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "161 N. E. 2d 101", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.E.2d", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "17 Ill. 2d 242", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. 2d", "case_ids": [ 5333316 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-2d/17/0242-01" ] }, { "cite": "262 S. 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Ins. Co. v. Robinson." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Jim Johnson,' Associate Justice.\nThis appeal arises after entry of a nunc pro tunc order following an earlier appeal to this court. In 1958 appellee Bartis Robinson was injured in an automobile accident in Illinois, while riding as a passenger in a car driven by Forrest B. Booth, an Arkansas resident and an insured of appellant Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company. After the accident, Booth returned to Arkansas. Appellee sued Booth in Illinois and obtained a default judgment against Booth for $20,000. Appellant insurer had appeared to defend Booth and then withdrew from the case prior to the defaulted judgment. The Illinois judgment was reduced to an Arkansas judgment on January 2, 1961. After an execution issued against Booth was returned unsatisfied, appellee filed suit directly against appellant under the authority of our \u2018 \u2018 direct action statute,\u201d Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 66-526, since repealed and replaced by Ark. Stat. Aim. \u00a7 66-4002 (Supp. 1963). Following a jury verdict, judgment was obtained by appellee against appellant. The jury failed or refused to award interest and the court thereafter granted appellee\u2019s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict to include interest. From the judgment, which totaled $9,637.55, appellant appealed to this court. See Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Ins. Co. v. Robinson, 236 Ark. 268, 365 S. W. 2d 454, for additional factual background in this involved litigation as well as the law of that case. This court held, inter alia, that appellee was entitled as a matter of law to interest if he was entitled to a judgment, citing the mandatory tenor of Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 29-124 (Repl. 1962).\nThis court\u2019s mandate was filed in Independence Circuit Court on April 9, 1963, and thereafter appellant tendered to appellee the sum of $9,637.55 with six percent interest on that sum from October 26, 1961. Appellee refused this tender, insisting that he is entitled to the $9,637.55 plus interest computed on the entire $20,000 original judgment. Appellee filed a motion for order nunc pro tunc, alleging that there was an ambiguity or a scrivener\u2019s error in the judgment affirmed by this court. At hearing on the motion on September 25, 1963, the trial court found and held:\n\u201cOn or about 1/29/62 this court advised counsel by letter that the motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was being granted.. This ruling announced by letter, was intended to mean just exactly what it said, \u2018that the motion was granted.\u2019 There was no limitation in the ruling, and the court has the very distinct recollection that it was the court\u2019s intention at that time that the interest be computed until paid on the amount of the Illinois judgment, which was $20,000.00. It was not until the filing of this motion for order and judgment nunc pro tunc on interest that the court became aware that counsel for the plaintiff had committed a scrivener\u2019s error in the precedent submitted to the court, and by doing so did not prepare a judgment which spoke the truth.\n\u201cWherefore, the court orders that the judgment of 1/2.9/62 he corrected to speak the truth nunc pro tunc.\n\u201cWherefore, it is considered, ordered and adjudged that interest be computed on $20,000.00 at the rate of 6r/o per annum from October 26,1961, until date of tender of the correct amount of the judgment and interest, in addition to the other sums for which judgment was entered by the court on January 27, 1962, and that execution or other appropriate process may be issued therefor, and this judgment having been made on the 27th day of January, 1962, and it inadvertently omitted from the records, it is entered nunc pro tunc. \u2019 \u2019 From this order, appellant has prosecuted this appeal urging that the trial court erred in granting appellee\u2019s motion for order and judgment nunc pro tunc on interest.\nThere can be little doubt about the power of a trial court to entertain and grant an order nunc pro tunc, Fitzjarrald v. Fitzjarrald, 233 Ark. 328, 344 S. W. 2d 584, even during or after appeal, Davie, Executrix v. Smoot, 202 Ark. 294, 150 S. W. 2d 50; Chronister v. Robertson, 208 Ark. 11, 185 S. W. 2d 104. As stated in Wright v. Ford, 216 Ark. 55, 224 S. W. 2d 50:\n\u201cThe common law rule that no judgment can be amended after the term at which it is rendered has been modified so that where the entry through some plain error fails to correspond with the judgment that was actually rendered, the court can at a later term correct the judgment, but there is no authority to revise a judgment, or to correct a judicial mistake, or to adjudicate a matter which might have been considered at the time of trial, or to grant' an additional relief which was not in the contemplation of the court at the time the judgment was rendered.\u201d\nA careful review of the record of this and the earlier appeal as well as our prior opinion fails to impeach the credibility of the distinguished trial judge\u2019s statement in the nunc pro tunc order that \u201cit was the court\u2019s intention at that time that the interest be computed until paid on the amount of the Illinois judgment, which was $20,000.00.\u201d Such interest was prayed for in the complaint and in the motion for judgment n. o. v. and was mentioned again in the alternative motion for new trial. The trial court granted this prayer without reservation. The attorney who prepared the precedent clearly made a scrivener\u2019s error. The state of the record being thus, the trial court properly granted the motion for an order nunc pro tunc to cause the judgment to speak the truth. United Drug Co. v. Bedell, 164 Ark. 527, 262 S. W. 316.\nIt follows, ergo, that appellant\u2019s tender of less than the total amount due failed to toll the running of interest. Appellant\u2019s \u201cmistake in tendering an amount less than the sum due is the misfortune of the tenderer, the tender having no legal significance if refused, and the position of the parties remains the same as though no tender had been made.\u201d 86 C.J.S., Tender, \u00a7 7, p. 562; 52 Am. Jur., Tender, \u00a7 39, p. 243; River Valley Cartage Co. v. Hawkins-Security Ins. Co., 17 Ill. 2d 242, 161 N. E. 2d 101, 76 A.L.R. 2d 978.\nAffirmed.\nSee also 76 A.L.R. 2d 983 and 1964 Supp. Service, Liability insurer\u2019s liability for interest and costs on excess of judgment over policy limit, \u00a7\u00a7 3, 4.", "type": "majority", "author": "Jim Johnson,' Associate Justice." } ], "attorneys": [ "Cochrill, Laser, McGehee $ Sharp, for appellant.", "Murphy \u00e9 Arnold, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Southern Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. Co. v. Robinson.\n5-3264\n379 S. W. 2d 8\nOpinion delivered May 18, 1964.\nCochrill, Laser, McGehee $ Sharp, for appellant.\nMurphy \u00e9 Arnold, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0159-01", "first_page_order": 183, "last_page_order": 186 }