Barksdale v. Marcum

On the final hearing of this cause in the chancery court, the complainant’s bill was dismissed, and the complainant, G. W. Barksdale, has brought the case, by appeal, to this court, and has assigned errors here.

An appeal in a chancery case, tried according to the forms of the chancery court, vacates the decree appealed from, and opens the whole case, on the pleadings aiid evidence, for a trial de novo in the ¡appellate court, of the whole matter of law and fact appearing in the record. Shan. Code, Sec. 4887; Willis and Turner v. Moore and Daves, 151 Tenn., 562, 271 S. W., 736.

But where issues…