Grundy v. Broome

HALL, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by Allen C. Grundy and B. E. Davenport, mayor of the city of Memphis, against C. W. Broome, and the case went to trial upon plaintiffs’ third amended original petition. The court sustained a general demurrer to the plaintiffs’ pleading, and, plaintiffs refusing to amend, judgment was rendered for the defendant.

The substance of the petition, omitting the formal parts, is that Grundy, former mayor of Memphis, and his successor in office, S. T. Harrison, and B. E. Davenport, the present mayor of said city, complaining of the defendant would show to…