Hamilton v. Town of Harwood

This is a petition for a common law writ of certiorari. It is assumed by the petition that such a writ may be used as a complete substitute for a writ of error or an appeal, and that, by virtue of it, errors in ruling upon the law and the evidence in the progress of the trial, and in the application of the law to the facts in the rendition of judgment, may be corrected. This is a grave misapprehension. The office of the writ is. only to bring before the court awarding it, the record of the proceedings of the inferior tribunal, and the judgment must either be that the writ be quashed and a…