14 Mass. 392
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 15, 1817
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1817-10-15
Harrington moved for a certiorari to bring ■ up the proceedings of a general court-martial, which had passed a sentence upon the said Dunbar, an officer of the militia, by which he was aggrieved. In support of the motion, Harrington argued from the powers vested in this Court by the statute establishing it.
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Decided 1817-10-15
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1909
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¶1This is an application of an entirely new impression. The inconveniences, which may be foreseen from sustaining motions of this kind, furnish, besides the total want of precedent, a strong argument against it. Parties who have legal ground to complain of the doings of these military courts have their remedy by action at law ; and to that remedy they must be left.
¶2Motion overruled.