Burke v. North Vernon Lumber Mills

The appeal in this case is from the decree of the County Judge of Dyer County, Tennessee, in favor of complainant on a certain note in the sum of $10,000, with interest and attorneys fees, executed by the defendant to complainant as one of the deferred payments on a tract of timber sold by complainant to the defendant. By special Act of the legislature the County Judge is given concurrent jurisdiction with the Chancery Court in matters of this kind.

The original bill alleged that the North Vernon Lumber Mills, a foreign corporation, purchased from complainant the timber on a tract of land…