Harrington v. Smith

This case was twice argued, and it needed not the able, and, as I think, most conclusive argument of the learned counsel who appeared for the defendant on the last occasion, to satisfy my mind of the correctness of the statutory construction for which he contended, and that the commissioners of the school and university lands were not only authorized, but were clearly required to make out and issue certificates upon the sale of the lands in question to the plaintiff. The cause was ably argued, in the first instance, on both sides, and from that argument and subsequent examination, which was…