Johnson v. Moore's Heirs

The following petition for a re-hearing was presented by.

Mr. Breckinridge :

Believing, as we do, that the rights of our client have not received the sanction and consummation to which he is legally entitled; and, after a most patient and respectful consideration, of the reasoning employed in the opinion of the court, having arrived at the conclusion, that it sanctions, by its high and controlling authority, a principle that is alike repugnant to philosophy and law ; we have felt it a duty, too imperious *375to forego, shortly, but frankly, to state the grounds on which you are asked to new model…