Legal Opinion

Tindell v. Robbins

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1916PublishedCited by 2 opinions

FROM KNOX. 'Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of Knox County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Conrt of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court.— Yon A. Hueeakeb, Judge.

1Opinion of the Court

Me. M. Gr. Evans,

Special Judge, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question in this case is whether a motion for judgment over for costs may be made in the court of a different justice of the peace than that in which the costs accrued. At the present term we have had before us several cases involving this same question, in all of which the procedure under our statutes seems to be misunderstood.

In this case the plaintiff-in error, a deputy sheriff, filed a motion for judgment over against defendant in error for-certain costs which had accrued at the latter’s instance in cases filed before…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Love v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1893

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Morris Plan Bank v. ScottTennessee Supreme Court · 1940
  2. State Ex Rel. Bedford v. McCorkleTennessee Supreme Court · 1931

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