Carr v. Dawes

The defendant on the hearing of the case contented himself by submitting quite a meager brief, but, in support of his motion for a rehearing, he has filed a very able and elaborate one. In view of this, I have made a second reconnoissance — re-examination — of the whole ground covered by his argument, and the result has been to rivet the convictions on my mind which had been previously formed and expressed in the opinion.

Without entering into an examination and consideration in detail of the authorities, it is sufficient to say that, whatever may have been decided elsewhere, in this state it…