In re Crooker

Citations

• 1 MacA. Pat. Cas. 134
• 6 F. Cas. 867

Syllabus

<p>New oath — not required on appeal. — An applicant is not required to filo a new oatli, after being finally rejected, to enable him to appeal.</p> <p>Bm — errors and mistakes .in specistoations. — The new oath referred to in the seventh section of the act of 1836 is to be taken only when the applicant persists iii his application, after having been informed by the Commissioner of the errors and defects of his specification. This happens before his claim is finally rejected.</p> <p>Reasons op appeal. — An objection to the opinion of the Commissioner in' regard to the sufficiency of a reference is not a good reason of appeal. Whatever may have been his opinion, his decision may have been correct.</p> <p>Error in judgment, not in reasoning. — The reasons of appeal must show that the decision of the Commissioner was wrong, and not merely that he was mistaken in his reasoning.</p>