Johnson v. Risk
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. This was a bill filed in the Chancery Court of Shelby" County, Tennessee, on October 28, 1885, by John Johnson against Thomas L. Risk, L. Tiff Risk, John D. Milburn, H. C. Warriner, Eben L. Risk, a minor, and his guardian, Alice H. Risk, all residing in Shelby County, and Frank L. Duncan and Jennie, his wife, residing in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. This was a bill filed in the Chancery Court of Shelby" County, Tennessee, on October 28, 1885, by John Johnson against Thomas L. Risk, L. Tiff Risk, John D. Milburn, H. C. Warriner, Eben L. Risk, a minor, and his guardian, Alice H. Risk, all residing in Shelby County, and Frank L. Duncan and Jennie, his wife, residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. The bill averred that the cofnplainant and one E. F. Risk, since deceased, were co-partners in the city of Memphis, under the styles of Johnson, Risk & Co. and Risk & Johnson, doing a foundry and also a…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller,
after stating .the case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendants below demurred upon two general grounds, one of which involved the construction of the provisions of the bankrupt act of March 2, 1867, and the other, the bar of the statutes of limitation of the State of Tennessee. So far as we are advised, no opinion was given by the Supreme Court of that State, upon rendering the judgment of affirmance, and the record discloses no specific statement of the ground upon which the court proceeded. Inasmuch as one of the defences called for the…
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