REPORTS

OF CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

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SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE,

FOR THE

WESTERN DIVISION,

APRIL TERM, 1885,

EASTERN DIVISION,
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1885,

AND

MIDDLE DIVISION,
DECEMBER TERM, 1885.

BENJAMIN J. LEA,

ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND REPORTER.

VOLUME XV.

NASHVILLE:

ALBERT B. TAVEL, JAW PUBLISHER.

1886.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1886, by

BENJAMIN J. LEA,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Rec. May 21, 1986

*Appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Robert

McFarland.

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*Appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Chancellor

H. C. Smith.

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M. L. HALL, Cr. Ct. of Knox......

MATT. W. ALLEN, Cr. Ct. of Davidson and

.Knoxville.

Rutherford...............Nashville.

C. W. TYLER, Cr. Ct. of Montgomery.........Clarksville.

A. H. DOUGLASS, Cr. Ct. of Shelby,....

.Memphis.
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