Elliott v. Lawless

This . action of forcible entry and detainer was commenced before a justice on the 1st of June, 1870, after the passage of the Act .of 9th February, 1870, c. 64, Shankland’s Statutes, 124. Judgment was rendered against the defendant on the 24th of August, 1870, and the cause removed into the Circuit Court of Bradley county on a petition for writs of certiorari and supersedeas, and a fiat granted by Hon. John B. Hoyl, Judge, on the 24th of September, 1870. The motion to dismiss the petition was properly overruled, although the . petition contains no good reason for not appealing. ' Under the…