Ballard v. Railroad

The case presented by the record, so far as need be stated, is that it is a bill in chancery, seeking to obtain a new trial of a cause already tried in a law Court on its merits, and appealed to the Supreme Court, and there dismissed, because the appeal was not perfected in the time allowed by law and the practice in such cases.

The Chancellor, on demurrer, dismissed the bill, and complainants hare appealed and assigned as error the action of the Chancellor in not rehearing the case upon its merits.

The jurisdiction and power of the Chancery Court to grant new trials, as well as to relieve from…