Duncan v. Gibbs

Opinion of the court delivered by

Judge Peck.

This was an action of ejectment, brought in June 1827, in the circuit court of White county for-acres of land, describing the same by abuttals. Duncan and Fisk, being served with process, appeared and pleaded not guilty. Upon the trial, Gibbs, the plaintiff, introduced and read to the jury.the record of a suit and judgment at law, obtained in the federal court holden at Nashville — Wilson vs. Samuel Denton. A fi. fa. to the Marshal of West Tennessee, founded on said judgment, commanding him to make the sum of $>3,800 (or thereabout) out of the…