Henderson v. Scott

The plaintiff sued the defendant before a justice of the peace for Cocke county, to recover the sum of $50 as a penalty alleged due and recoverable by the plaintiff, because that defendant did on or before January 19, 1924, demand and receive of plaintiff certain officer’s fees amounting to $2 in the case of the State of Tennessee v. A. D. Henderson, before Oscar O’Neil, a justice of the peace for Cocke county, to which he was not entitled under the law, said sum of $50 being the penalty provided by statute in such cases.

The cause was tried before Esq. J. S. Parks, a justice of the peace for…