§ 9-12-15.Judgment aided by verdict or amendable not set aside

Not every flaw in a case's pleadings or record is enough to unravel the judgment that follows. This section draws a firm line: a judgment may not be set aside for any defect in the pleadings or the record that is aided by verdict or amendable as a matter of form.

A defect “aided by verdict” is one the jury's own finding has effectively cured — reaching the verdict necessarily meant resolving the fact the pleadings failed to state cleanly, so the gap no longer matters. A defect that is merely “amendable as a matter of form” is one that never touched the substance of the case in the first place — a wording problem, not a missing element of the claim.

Together, those two categories keep a judgment from being reopened over technicalities the record itself has already overcome. The rule complements the article's broader preference for reading verdicts generously and fixing what can be fixed, extending that same preference to how courts treat challenges to the judgment that follows.