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  "name": "JOHN RAY vs. MALCOLM RAY",
  "name_abbreviation": "Ray v. Ray",
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    "parties": [
      "JOHN RAY vs. MALCOLM RAY."
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        "text": "Pearson, J.\nThere is no error in the record. The guardian of the lunatie had no right of appeal from the Judgment of the County Court. The question is settled, Willis v. Davis, 5 Ire. 14.\nPer Curiam. Judgment affirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Banks, for the plaintiff.",
      "No counsel for the defendant."
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    "head_matter": "JOHN RAY vs. MALCOLM RAY.\nAn appeal will not lie to the Superior Court, from the decision of the County Court, on a petition, by an alleged lunatic, to have the verdict of an inquest in his case set aside, and the guardian appointed in pursuance thereof removed.\nThe ease of Willis v. Davis, 5 Ire. 14, cited and approved.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Law of Cumberland County, at the Fall Term 1850, his Honor Judge Battle presiding;\nThe plaintiff in this case filed his petition in Cumberland County Court, at March Term 1849, alleging, thatf at the instance of the defendant, the said Court, at March Term of 1848, passed an order directing a jury to inquire \u25a0whether or not the plaintiff was a lunatic : that at June Term 184S the jury returned a verdict finding that the plaintiff was a lunatic? whereupon the Court appointed the defendant guardian to the plaintiff. The plaintiff, in his petition alleges, that he was not then, nor is he noWj a lunatic, and prays the Court to set aside the former order, directing an inquest, the verdict returned thereon and the appointment of the defendant as his guardian.\u2014 The defendant answered, and the Court, at June Term 1849, ordered the following issue to be made up, \u201cIs the petitioner, John Ray, a lunatic or not.\u201d The jury found that John Ray was not a lunatic. \u201cWhereupon it is adjudged by the Court, that the traverse of the verdict of the former jury, mentioned in complainant\u2019s petition, is sustained? and it is further adjudged, upon the finding of the jury, now empannelled in the cause, that John Ray is compos mentis, and that the order appointing a guardian is rescinded.\u201d From this judgment the defendant ob. tained an appeal to the Superior Court of Law.\nIn the Superior Court, on motion of the petitioner\u2019s counsel to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction, the Court orders that the appeal be dismissed. From this order the defendant appealed to the Supreme Court.\nBanks, for the plaintiff.\nNo counsel for the defendant."
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