Gibson v. Rogers
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Error to Crawford Circuit Court. This was a suit in chancery, and was brought up by a writ of error The defendant in error moved to dismiss, because no writ of error lay to a court of chancery.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, Judge
At common law a writ of error was a matter of right, and issued of eourse out of chancery, to remove the record from an inferior to a suporior court, (except in cases coram nobis,) with a commission to the Judges of the reversing tribunal to examine the proceedings, and to-affirm or reverse the judgment according to law. 2 Saund. 100; 2 Bac. Abr. 448.
It lies where a person is aggrieved by an error in the foundation,, proceeding, judgment or execution' of á suit, and it is granted in all-cases, proceeding agreeably to the course of common law in a court of record, except in cases of treason…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Commonwealth v. Blue-Hill Turnpike Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1809
- In re NegusCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1832
- Pratt v. HallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1808
- Ball v. BrighamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1809