text:  Mortifying it might certainly seem for the members of a supreme court like the General Assembly to be baffled by those of a subordinate court: but still since each party must be regarded as representing far larger interests than any personal to themselves trying on either side not the energies of their separate wits but the available resources of law in one of its obscurer chapters there really seemed no more room for humiliation to the one party or for triumph to the other than there is amongst reasonable men in the result from a game where the game is one exclusively of chance