Guild v. Borner
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM TIPTON. Appeal from the Chancery Court. James Fen-tress, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtNicholson, C. J.
Complainant seeks, by attachment, to enforce his lien, as a solicitor, for services rendered for defendants in the case of P. Townsend, Jr., &c., v. J. W. H. Townsend, Ex’r, &c. The facts of that case are reported in 4 Col., 70. It appears that P. Townsend, Jr., filed the bill as administrator with the will annexed of P. Townsend, Sr., deceased, against the devisees of John Booker, deceased, in which it was alleged that upon the death of P. Townsend, Sr., in 1825, his widow, who afterwards intermarried with John Booker, suppressed and concealed his will, which suppression and concealment were…
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