Heiskell v. Knox County

It appearing to the court that the public interest requires it, this case was advanced for hearing and was heard at Jackson on May 31,1915, as provided by law, upon the transcript of the record from Knox county chancery court, the assignments of error by appellant, reply brief thereto, and the oral argument.

It appears that defendants T. A. "Wright and others were the owners of a tract of land near Knoxville, known as the Cherokee tract, and the quarterly court of Knox county, on the first Monday in January, 1915, adopted a resolution upon a proposition made to it by the owners to buy said…