Parker v. Coggins

Clark, J.:

At the call of the district to which this case belongs, in October of last Term, being the first Term of this Court which began after the trial below, the appellant had docketed the record proper. It also appears that the lack of a “case settled on appeal” was without laches on appellant's part, the appellant’s case and the counter-case having been served in due time and the Judge promptly notified so that he might name a time and place for settlement. Regularly, a certiorari should then have been asked for, but it was rendered unnecessary by the agreement of counsel in writing that…