Hunt v. Schilling

— This matter comes up on a motion for rehearing. There are three reasons assigned by the appellant in his motion. The first is substantially that the court erred in holding that the Land Department, being a body exercising judicial discretion and of limited jurisdiction, had no authority to set aside its own final decisions, unless the statute giving it judicial power specifically so provided. The second is that under the Laws of 1919, chapter 166, there is no longer any appeal from the decision of the state Land Commissioner to the Land Department, and that therefore the order of the state…