In Brief
In a property partition suit, the trial court decreed that a plaintiff should receive 3/5 of the property and defendants 2/5. The decree was based on a sketch map, but the map was not initially made part of the judgment. Years later, the defendants sought to amend the decree to incorporate the sketch map for execution purposes. The trial court allowed this amendment, but the High Court reversed it. The Supreme Court held that partition decrees must be executable and the sketch map should have been part of the original decree. The Court restored the trial court's amendment order, emphasizing that no party should suffer due to the court's clerical oversight.
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