Taylor v. Duncan

MORRIS, Justice.

A motion has been made in this case to dismiss the writ of error granted to Taylor, because the judgment which that writ was granted to revise was rendered previous to any law authorizing such writ, and after the right of appeal, under the laws existing at the time of the rendition of the judgment, had been lost by lapse of time.

The principal questions that arise in the determination of this motion are two: First, that at the time of the rendition of this judgment, was the method known to the law of obtaining a revision in a higher court of a case adjudicated in a lower?…