Memphis Consolidated Gas & Electric Co. v. Simpson
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Shelby County.— F. H. Heiskell, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Beard
The present case comes by appeal from the chancery court of Shelby county. The decree pronounced in the cause was upon an order pro confesso taken against all the defendants. The allegations of fact in the bill, upon the consideration of the cause by this court, must therefore be taken as true. Prom these allegations it appears that in December, 1903, one of the defendants, to wit, R. A. Simpson/ as the administrator of the estate of Wm. E. Simpson, deceased, brought a suit against the Memphis Telephone Company and the Memphis Consolidated G-as & Electric Company, in the circuit court of…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Metcalf v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Kent v. RicardsHigh Court of Chancery of Maryland · 1850
- Battier v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1904
- Brooks v. TwitchellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Thompson v. LaughlinCalifornia Supreme Court · 1891
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3Cited by3 opinions
- State ex rel. Weldon v. ThomasonTennessee Supreme Court · 1919
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- Molloy v. City of ChattanoogaTennessee Supreme Court · 1950