Phillips v. Rooker
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM OVERTON. Appeal from the Chancery Conrt of Overton County.- — A. H. Robebts, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
The bill of complaint was filed against W. A. Rook-er and others to recover a personal judgment on a series of notes executed by Rooker to the intestate of complainants for certain timber rights, and to enforce a lien retained in the contract of conveyance to secure their payment.
*459Among the defendants were the Bine Ridge Tie Company, a body corporate, J. U. Brown and J. K. Carpenter, as well as W. A. Rooker, who was the grantee in the instrument conveying the timber rights.
It was alleged that the Blue Ridge Tie Company was liable on the notes because of an assumption of the payment thereof by…
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