Ward v. Alsup
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM SHELBY. Appeal from Chancery Court of Shelby County. SteRling Pierson, Ch. The importance and public character of the questions involved in this cause, and justice to the parties and their solicitors, justify, if they do not require, a full report of all the proceedings, and the presentation of the arguments of counsel, and of the evidence introduced on the motion to dismiss. The pleadings in full are as follows, to wit: ORIGINAL BILL.
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PROM SHELBY. Appeal from Chancery Court of Shelby County. SteRling Pierson, Ch. The importance and public character of the questions involved in this cause, and justice to the parties and their solicitors, justify, if they do not require, a full report of all the proceedings, and the presentation of the arguments of counsel, and of the evidence introduced on the motion to dismiss. The pleadings in full are as follows, to wit: ORIGINAL BILL. The Bill op Complaint op Andbew J. Wab'd, a Citizen op Shelby County, Tennessee, against J. H. Alsup, a Citizen and the Tbustbe op Shelby County, Tenn.…
1Opinion of the Court
*738OPINION.
Snodgeass, Ch. J.
These two causes involve, in the main, the same questions, and, by request of counsel, are heard together. They are suits to recover taxes alleged to have been paid under protest. Demurrers were filed in both cases and sustained and the suits dismissed, and appeals prayed to this Court.
In this Court Messrs. E. H. East, Dickinson & Waller, Yertrees & Yertrees, Fentress & Cooper, and Adams & Trimble, reputable attorneys, have intervened as amici curiae, and by petition represent to the Court that the suits are merely colorable, and brought not in good faith, but to…
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