PLEADINGS.
Mr. Miller's bill [H. R. 271], to amend section 25 of the practice act of June, 1852, was taken up on the third reading.
Mr. M. said, this bill is intended to overrule a decision of the Supreme Court in XXXI. Indiana Reports. It provides that in such actions where the property is misdescribed, the court may cancel the mistakes, just as the court now does in misdescriptions in mortages. In XXXI. Ind. it is held that the court can't correct the description of the property. This simply affirms the substance of the decision in the XI. Ind. The bill was suggested and drawn by a friend of mine. It was finally passed the House of Representatives. Yeas, 78; nays, 1.
