Murfree v. Leeper

CAVEAT in the County-Court. Verdict for the Caveator; a petition was presented to a judge of this Court, praying that the cause might be removed by certiorari. The Judge granted the writ, and now at this term, it was moved to quash it, on the ground that the court have no authority in cases of caveats to grant writs, of certiorari. The first section of an act passed in the year 1779, c. 4, was referred to. By that section, the legislature have said that the judgment of the (County) Court, in all cases of vacant and unappropriated land, shall be final and conclusive without any appeal to the…