Odell v. Koppee
Tennessee Supreme Court
peoM laudeedale. Appeal in Error from the judgment of the Circuit Court, July Term, 1869. ¥*. P. BOND, J. Warrant: Par-ris v. Brown, 5 Yerg., 267; Davis v. Paries. 6 Yerg., 260; 9 Hum.
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peoM laudeedale. Appeal in Error from the judgment of the Circuit Court, July Term, 1869. ¥*. P. BOND, J. Warrant: Par-ris v. Brown, 5 Yerg., 267; Davis v. Paries. 6 Yerg., 260; 9 Hum. Affidavit and Attachment: 5 Yerg., 267. Incompetency of Witness: State v. Cooper, 2 Tenn., 96. Harrell v. State, 1 Head, 125. cited and commented on Parris v. Brown, 5 Yerg., 267; Davis v. Paries, 6 Yerg., 260; Kirby v. Lee, 8 Yerg., 439; Baleer v. Allen, 1 Tenn., 175; Wood v. Haneoele, 4 Hum., 465; Code, ss. 4146, 2815, 2817, 4176, 4177; ’1 Hum., 232. Party not excluded for defect of religious belief: 1…
1Opinion of the Court
F&eeMAN, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The suit 'in this ease, as well as we are able to trace it through the tangled mazes of this peculiar record, was commenced as against Odell, by warrant, issued by a Justice of the Peace for Lauderdale County, in favor of Charles Koppee, the plaintiff below.
The warrant commanded the officer to summon S. K. Odell to answer said Koppee “in an action of damages for a sum. under $250.”
There was judgment against Odell in favor of plaintiff, from which he appealed to the Circuit Court. At July Term, 1869, Odell moved to discontinue the ease in the…
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