Ex Parte Roberts
This text of 31 U.S. 216 (Ex Parte Roberts) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of the United States primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The court is of opinión that the present is not a proper case for the interposition of this court, by way of mandamus. The application to set aside the default and inquest, was an.application to the discretion of the district court; and is not distinguishable in principle from- applications to grant new trials. This court has always considered such applications as r'ésting In the sound discretion of the court where the cause is depending, and not a matter for a mandamus or writ of err'or.
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