Robert Cooper Grier

“ It was like a judgment in a common law case, where a judgment is reversed and a venire de novo ordered; and the reason given by the court was, 'that the District Court might not be trammeled in their future consideration of the case on all its merits.'
The motion for a mandamus is therefore refused. ”

“ Ortega had married the daughter of Miranda; they lived as one family, and entered into possession of the land claimed. Ortega's title purported to be founded on a petition to Governor Alvarado, dated 12th June, 1840; a reference report and marginal decree signed by Alvarado, 10th of August, 1840, 'which was returned to him to serve as a security during the other operations indicated.' It was never completed by a final grant, and was not to be found among the archives, but its execution was proved by Alvarado himself. ”