Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Volume 11Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1883 |
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... complainant . J. S. COOPER for defendants . TURNEY , J. , delivered the opinion of the court . The question in this case arises upon section 3339 of the Code , ch . 3 , headed " Of the sale of property of persons under disability . That ...
... complainant . J. S. COOPER for defendants . TURNEY , J. , delivered the opinion of the court . The question in this case arises upon section 3339 of the Code , ch . 3 , headed " Of the sale of property of persons under disability . That ...
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... complainant at the price of $ 2,000 . Doubting his power under the will to consummate the sale , he resorted to the chancery court and asked a confirmation of his sale . Complainant was introduced as a witness to prove , and did prove ...
... complainant at the price of $ 2,000 . Doubting his power under the will to consummate the sale , he resorted to the chancery court and asked a confirmation of his sale . Complainant was introduced as a witness to prove , and did prove ...
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... complainant . HUMES & POSTON for defendants . COOPER , J. , delivered the opinion of the court . Bill filed upon a covenant of general warranty of title to a lot of ground in the city of Memphis , to Elliott v . Williamson . recover ...
... complainant . HUMES & POSTON for defendants . COOPER , J. , delivered the opinion of the court . Bill filed upon a covenant of general warranty of title to a lot of ground in the city of Memphis , to Elliott v . Williamson . recover ...
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... complainant appealed . The lot in question was sold and conveyed to C. Kortrecht on June 5 , 1857 , by the Planters Bank , that bank having bought it several years before from the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Memphis . On May 8 , 1861 ...
... complainant appealed . The lot in question was sold and conveyed to C. Kortrecht on June 5 , 1857 , by the Planters Bank , that bank having bought it several years before from the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Memphis . On May 8 , 1861 ...
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... complainant sold the lot agreeing to pay the taxes , and her agent learned through a private ab- stract office , and upon investigation that according to the original tax books of the city the tax for the fiscal year of 1857 was unpaid ...
... complainant sold the lot agreeing to pay the taxes , and her agent learned through a private ab- stract office , and upon investigation that according to the original tax books of the city the tax for the fiscal year of 1857 was unpaid ...
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Page 475 - In all other cases, the defendant may be found guilty of any offense the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment
Page 56 - The generality of a title is therefore no objection to it, so long as it is not made a cover to legislation incongruous in itself, and which by no fair intendment can be considered as having a necessary or proper connection.
Page 312 - ... 1. For a public offense committed or attempted in his presence; 2. When a person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his presence ; 3. When a felony has in fact been committed, and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it; 4.
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Page 129 - heirs or personal representatives" of a person whose death has been caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another "may maintain an action for damages against the person causing the death.
Page 283 - In the presence of the court or so near thereto as to interfere directly with the administration of justice...
Page 27 - ... where an old county is reduced for the purpose of forming a new one, the seat of justice in said old county shall not be removed without the concurrence of two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature, nor shall the seat of justice of any county be removed without the concurrence of two-thirds of the Qualified voters of the county.
Page 128 - District Judges are pronouncing no mere rigmarole when, in law cases, they charge jurors that they are the sole and exclusive judges of the credibility of the witnesses, and the weight to be given to their testimony.
Page 61 - No decree bindeth any that cometh in bona fide by conveyance from the defendant before the bill exhibited, and is made no party, neither by bill nor order; but where he comes in pendente lite, and while the suit is in full prosecution, and without any color of allowance or privity of the court, there regularly the decree bindeth...