Legal Opinion
Hedges v. Burke
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 15, 1922PublishedCited by 6 opinions
FROM HAMILTON. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hamilton County.— Hon. W. B. Garvin, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKinney
Court.
The bill in this cause was filed by M. M. Hedges against Lewis Burke and J. Staley Greever, constituting the firm of Lewis Burke & Co., and the First National Bank of Chattanooga, to recover one hundred shares of stock in the Penn-Mex Fuel Company.
The opinion of the chancellor, as to the question of liability, accords with our views, and is therefore adopted as our opinion, and is as follows
“In this cause there has been a judgment pro confesso against the members of the firm of Lewis Burke & Co., and the controversy is now between complainant and the other defendant, the First National…
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