Milliner's adm'r v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an application by Robert Milliner’s administrator to the supreme court of appeals, for a rule upon Randolph Harrison, register of the land office, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue commanding him to deliver to the petitioner certain land warrants which had been made out in favor of the heirs of Robert Milliner, deceased, and on file in his office. The register filed his answer to the rule; and the case was submitted to the court.
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This was an application by Robert Milliner’s administrator to the supreme court of appeals, for a rule upon Randolph Harrison, register of the land office, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue commanding him to deliver to the petitioner certain land warrants which had been made out in favor of the heirs of Robert Milliner, deceased, and on file in his office. The register filed his answer to the rule; and the case was submitted to the court. The case is fully stated by Judge Christian in his opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
The petition in this case is filed by John Milliner, the administrator de bonis non of Robert Milliner, deceased, invoking the original jurisdiction of this court by way of its writ of mandamus, to compel Randolph Harrison, Esq., the register of the land office, to issue and deliver to petitioner certain land warrants.
The petition alleges that on the 7th December, 1830, an order was entered on the executive journal of Virginia, by the governor and council, allowing land bounty to Robert Milliner as a lieutenant in the Virginia navy; that the amount so allotted and granted was four thousand…
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