Howard's Admr. v. Cooper

Opinion by

Judge Peters

Counsel complain of the decision in this case as being novel and startling, and even seems to congratulate himself that the *554principles herein enunciated were withheld until so late a period apprehending that if they had been announced immediately after the close of the war they would have pauperized the confederate soldiers of the state.

That class of our citizens may congratulate themselves in having at last found so able a defender of their rights in the person of the.attorney for appellant, and in his newly awakened zeal for them it may not be surprising that he should…