Conn v. E. Chadwick & Co.

An affidavit is handed to the court, signed and sworn to by R. L. Campbell, Esq., attorney for the appellant, stating that “he has reason to believe and does believe that the said appellant cannot obtain justice in said cause by reason of the prejudice” of the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Westcott of this court.

Ho motion ivas made thereon, and no explanation given of its contents or its purpose, until counsel for the appellees called attention to an act of the Legislature, chapter 3120, approved 8th March, 1879. This act provides that if any party to a suit pending in the Supreme Court, or…