Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee: During the year 1858J.O. Griffith & Company, Printers, Union and American Office, 1860 |
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A. E. Smith acres action Adm'r affirmed alleged appealed in error authority Bank bill of review bond bound cause Chancellor Chancery Court charge charter Circuit Court claim complainant contract conveyance Court of Chancery Court of Equity creditors damages death debt decree defendant appealed defendant in error delivered the opinion Deloach demurrer entitled equity evidence execution fact favor feme covert fendant filed Frasier fraud ground guardian heirs held husband indictment infants interest intestate James James Ingram John John Goodman Jones jurisdiction jury justice Levisa liable ment negroes non est factum parol parties payment person petition plaintiff in error plea possession principle proceeding proof proper purchase money question record remainder rendered replevin reversed rule Samuel Saunders slaves Smith Sneed sold statute of limitations stayor suit Term Thomas Posey tion trial Vaden valid verdict and judgment void warranty wife William Winchester witness writ
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Strana 350 - Such estates for life will, generally speaking, endure as long as the life for which they are granted : but there are some estates for life, which may determine upon future contingencies, before the life, for which they are created, expires.. As, if an estate be granted to a woman during her widowhood...
Strana 171 - Not more than two new trials shall be granted to the same party in the same cause...
Strana 614 - THE COURT. This was an action on the case to recover damages for an injury to the person of the plaintiff.
Strana 330 - ... and this he is ready to verify : wherefore he prays judgment if he ought to be charged with the debt aforesaid by virtue of the said writing [294] obligatory, &c.
Strana 194 - J., delivered the opinion of the Court. The controversy in this case is in relation to a certain negro slave named Lydia and her descendants.
Strana 79 - Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court. This bill was filed in the clerk's office of this court, in July, 1849. It charged that the defendants, under color of an act of the Legislature of Virginia, but in direct violation of its terms, were engaged in the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River, at Wheeling, which would obstruct its navigation, to and from...
Strana 392 - Judge, after stating the facts as above, delivered the opinion of the court. The only question in this case is whether the facts as found support the judgment as rendered.
Strana 474 - ... for leave to file a supplemental bill in the nature of a bill of review.
Strana 622 - ... what would be but ordinary neglect in regard to one whom the defendant supposed a person of full age and capacity, would be gross neglect as to a child, or one known to be incapable of escaping danger.
Strana 695 - Generally, the reasonableness of the notice will be a mixed question of law and fact, to be submitted to the jury under proper instructions...