Shepard v. Akers

The Chancellor :

Motion by the defendant to dismiss-the bill for want of equity on its face.

The facts disclosed by the bill are these: About March 22, 1872, the defendant brought his suit in the law court at. Nashville against the complainants, “in an action to his-damage fifteen hundred dollars.” The summons was served upon one of the complainants on the 22d, and upon the-other, 25th March, 1872, and required them to appear on the first Monday in May, 1872. Complainants employed a. member of the Columbia bar to appear for them as their counsel, and gave him full and definite explanation of…