Childress v. Black
Tennessee Supreme Court
This was a proceeding, by Black and Wife against the plaintiffs in error. The cause was tried before three justices of the peace and a jury, in Roane county, on the 9th and 10t]i days of July 1835, when a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff, Black and Wife.
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This was a proceeding, by Black and Wife against the plaintiffs in error. The cause was tried before three justices of the peace and a jury, in Roane county, on the 9th and 10t]i days of July 1835, when a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff, Black and Wife. The" cause was removed to the circuit court of that county by certiorari, returnable to its September term 1835, at which term the defendants, Childress and Wiley by their counsel, had a rule entered to quash the proceedings, and at the same term, the plaintiffs below, moved the court to dismiss the certiorari. The circuit court refused…
1Opinion of the CourtReese, J.
It seems from the record in this case, that a certain Gideon Morgan, sen. in 1821, was owner in fee, and possessed of lot No. 39, in the town of Kingston, upon which is a brick dwelling house &c., which he conveyed to a person called Edmond T. Morgan, who occupied the same for sometime, and departed this life; s fter which the said Gideon Morgan was in possession of the lot, rented it out, and received the rents, and continued to exercise over it acts of ownership until his death. After his death, his widow continued the possession by her tenants for many years, receiving the rents and…
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