Stair v. Heska Amone Congregation
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM KNOX. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Knox Connty to the Conrt of Civil Appeals and by certiorari from the Court of Civil Appeals to the Supreme Court. — Will D. Weight, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
The bill -of complaint was filed by Stair to recover a reward of $300, offered by defendant Congregation for the “arrest and delivery to the sheriff of Knox county” of one who had at night assailed and brutally beaten, in his store, one of its members, Schwarts, there-being no other present.
*192The proof establishes that among those who with knowledge of, and in reliance on the reward, began to search or look out for the culprit, was one Johnson, of the city police force. This officer, observing a negro walking a street of his beat who appeared to him to answer the description given in the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Haskell v. DavidsonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1898
- McClaughry v. KingCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1906
3Cited by2 opinions
- Johnson v. PerkinsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1936
- Stephens v. City of MemphisCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1977