11 P. 396 | Ariz. | 1886
This was an action of ejectment to recover possession of mining ground. The cause was tried below by the court and jury, and a verdict was rendered for plaintiff, and judgment accordingly. The defendant moved fori a new trial, which was overruled, and he appealed to this-court. The cause was submitted to the January term, A. D.,-1885, of this court, and the judgment was affirmed. Arizona Prince Copper Company v. Copper Queen Mining Company, Ante 210, 7 Pac. 718. Defendant petitioned this court for a rehearing of the cause, which was granted, and the case was re-argued, and again submitted. Neither the petition, itself, nor the argument of the case, point out any misapprehension of the record by this court, or any mistake in the law of the case. Every question urged upon us was submitted and considered by the court on the former hearing. We are, in-effect, asked to review that decision of this court. This we decline to do. It is not the office or purpose of a rehearing to reopen the whole cause, and to require of the court a reconsideration of the whole case. Were this precedent to be established, it would open the doors for petitions for rehearing of all causes, and we should expect them more particularly when the persons who compose the court have been changed. On the argument of the cause many points have
Shields, C. J., and Porter, J., concur.