John Knox, James Boggs, and James A. Knox, Trading Under the Firm of Knox, Boggs, & Co. v. Peyton Smith and Others

45 U.S. 298

4 How. 298

11 L.Ed. 983

JOHN KNOX, JAMES BOGGS, AND JAMES A. KNOX, TRADING

UNDER THE FIRM OF KNOX, BOGGS, & CO., APPELLANTS,

v.

PEYTON SMITH AND OTHERS, DEFENDANTS.

January Term, 1846

1

THIS was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of West Tennessee, sitting as a court of equity. The appellants had filed a bill against the defendants, which bill was dismissed by the Circuit Court.

2

The facts in the case were these.

3

On the 23d of March, 1839, Probert P. Collier, of the county of Tipton and State of Tennessee, executed to Peyton Smith, of the same State, a…