Mecum v. Metz

Potter, Chief Justice.

Within the thirty day period for filing a petition for rehearing after the order affirming the judgment appealed from in this case, a communication was received from the appellant signed in his own name and addressed to the court, which was directed to be filed, as a petition for a rehearing, although not so entitled; the appellant, although represented in the cause by other counsel, being, himself, an attorney in good standing in this court. That communication, respectful in form and substance, seemed to us, in effect, to express a doubt -whether the court had correctly…