Arlington Hotel Co. v. Ewing

This action was originally brought before a justice of the peace of Shelby county, and a-judgment rendered, from which judgment an appeal was prayed to the circuit court of that county, and a judgment there pronounced in favor of the defendant in error. An appeal was then prosecuted to the court of civil appeals, where the judgment was affirmed, and from this judgment the plaintiff in error prosecuted a petition for certiorari to this court, and here assigned errors. The petition was granted, and the case was placed on the docket and fully argued by counsel.

The suit is based upon the…