Anderson v. Bowling

An officer justified on trial of an action of trover under an execution issued by a justice of the peace more than thirty days before the levy; The Court below charged that it would not protect him.

Heiskell for the plaintiff below, cited Clingman v. Barret 6 Humph. 21, and Rogers v. Hunter, M. S. Knoxville, 1849 (2) Judgment affirmed. (3)

Mr. Heiskell’s M. S. report of the case of Rogers v. Hunter consists of the following oral dicta by McKinney, J.

“A judgment by confession before a justice of the peace must show . in whose favor it is rendered, and if it do not, it is void and cannot be…