Legal Opinion

Posey v. Eaton

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1882PublishedCited by 3 opinions

FROM HAMILTON. Appeal from the Chancery Court at Chattanooga. W. M. BRADFORD, Ch.

1Opinion of the CourtFreemaN, J.

This bill is filed to remove a cloud from the title of complainants, to certain lands in Hamilton county. These lands belonged, in his life time, to John Brown, Jr., who died in 1863, in the city of Nashville, but was in fact a resident of Hamilton county, Tennessee, at his death.

It appears that William Clift claimed to be a creditor by judgment against John J. Brown, administrator of Jno. Brown, Jr., deceased, and filed his bill in-1868, against the administrator and heirs of Brown, to sell lands descended to the heirs for the payment of his own and other debts.

The papers filed in said cause…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Brake v. KellyTennessee Supreme Court · 1950
  2. Johnson v. McKinneyCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1948
  3. Doten v. Southern Ry. Co.District Court, W.D. Tennessee · 1940

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