Case Name: Graves v. Graves and Others
Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1808-06-24
Citations: 2 Hen. & M. 22
Docket Number: 
Parties: Graves v. Graves and Others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 319–319

Head Matter:
Graves v. Graves and Others.
Friday, June 24, 1808.
Order Dismissing injunction — Right to New Injunction Pending Appeal. — It is irregular, after a decree of an inferior Court, dismissing a bill of injunction, to apply to the superior Court for a new injunction to stay proceedings on the j udgment at law during the pendency before the same superior Court of an appeal from the decree.
This was a motion for an injunction to a judgment of the County Court of Caroline, where there had been an injunction for the same thing, and a dismission of the bill; *the cause being now before this Court, on an appeal. The bill also sought a review of the decree of the County Court.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This Court cannot review the decisions of an inferior Court in this way. They must be examined in the mode prescribed by law. This has been already decided, upon great deliberation, in the case of Banks v. Anderson. The cause is properly before the Court in another way : nor can this court, as decided in the same case, correct the decisions of an inferior Court by an original bill for that purpose. Upon any ground, therefore, without looking into the merits of this application, the motion must be denied, and the parties left to stand upon the appeal.
The Court afterwards took up the appeal, reversed the decree of dismission, and made the injunction perpetual.
Ante, p. 20.