Cook v. Ross

Moore, Associate Justice.

If appellant has a meritoria *264ous cause of action, this judgment may no doubt work him an irreparable injury. But the rules and principles of law cannot he varied to meet the supposed equities of every particular case, nor the plain arid positive requirements of the statute regulating its procedure he annulled or set aside by the court to relieve parties from the consequences of their carelessness and neglect. Experience in the'administration of justice between litigants, from “ the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary,” demonstrates that cases…