Case law

Wessel v. Brown

78 Tenn. 685 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1882

Brown, N. P. and J. E. Saunders, for about $4,600, and upon which execution has been issued and returned nulla bona. … Brown and J. E. and N. P.

Brown v. State

39 Tenn. 180 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1858

Brown was a grocery keeper in the town of Mur-freesboro’, and being suspected of selling liquor to slaves, a plan was concerted for his detection. … The slave proceeded to the back door of the grocery, knocked, and was admitted by Brown, and immediately came out with the flask full of spirituous liquor.

Brown v. State

39 Tenn. 180 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1858

Brown was a grocery keeper in the town of Mur-freesboro’, and being suspected of selling liquor to slaves, a plan was concerted for his detection. … The slave proceeded to the back door of the grocery, knocked, and was admitted by Brown, and immediately came out with the flask full of spirituous liquor.

Smith v. Brown

3 Shan. Cas. 820 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1870

Brown, one of tlie defendants, presented his petition to ITou. W. W. … Scoby [subsequently published in 2 Heis., 20], and according to Hollins v. Johnson, 3 Head, 347 .

Brown v. McCloud

40 Tenn. 280 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1859

Brown v. Cannon

40 Tenn. 354 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1859

Brown, levied the same upon the slaves, Joe and Peter, as his property. … Brown’s children, and his wife, for their separate support and my son’s.”

Brown v. Cannon

40 Tenn. 354 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1859

Brown, levied the same upon the slaves, Joe and Peter, as his property. … Brown’s children, and his wife, for their separate support and my son’s.”

Brents v. Brown

40 Tenn. 560 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1859

The complainant, Elizabeth Brents, prior to the marriage with her • co-complainant, in December, 1857, was the .widow of one Benjamin Brown, who died in the early part of that year, in Bedford county. … Said Brown was possessed of a large estate, which he disposed of by his last will and testament, consisting in part, of notes and 'obligations for the payment of money due to him, to the amount of about thirty thousand dollars

Mitchell v. Brown

46 Tenn. 505 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1869

Brown executed a deed in fee simple to McAnally; and at the same time, he, McAnally, executed a trust deed to Brown and G. B. … the debt of Brown to Hill, secured by the deed?

Harrison v. Brown

31 Tenn. 272 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1851

Brown v. Simpson

14 Tenn. 295 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 15, 1834

Brown sued Simpson in assumpsit, and declared that Simpson, on the 1st January, 1832, promised to pay Brown four hundred and fifty dollars in cash notes on solvent men in Montgomery county.

Brown v. Simpson

14 Tenn. 295 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 15, 1834

Brown sued Simpson in assumpsit, and declared that Simpson, on the 1st January, 1832, promised to pay Brown four hundred and fifty dollars in cash notes on solvent men in Montgomery county.

Brown v. Newby

14 Tenn. 395 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 15, 1834

Brown v. Newby

14 Tenn. 395 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 15, 1834

Brown v. Newton

14 Tenn. 436 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 15, 1834

Murlock v. Brown

26 Tenn. 61 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1846

Brown v. Parks

27 Tenn. 294 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1847

Parks sued Brown upon an instrument of writing, in which the defendant acknowledged himself to be due to the plaintiff, on settlement $440 93 in good ginned cotton.

Brown v. Bibb

42 Tenn. 434 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1865

Brown, and the other against Ellen D. Hough. … Brown, conveying the entire slave, absolutely; and he has held adversely to everybody since.

State v. Brown

50 Tenn. 1 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 21, 1870

Ju'lge Whyte, in delivering the opinion of this court, in the case State v. … State v. Wimberly, 3 McCord, 190 , cited in 1 Wat. Arch. Cr. Pl., 304, n. These views are further supported by the authorities cited in the same book, pp. 262, 300.

Conway v. Brown

52 Tenn. 237 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 31, 1871

To satisfy this judgment complainants file their bill to subject a house and lot in Jackson to sale, alleging that although the title to the lot is in Matilda Brown, wife of Sam’l Brown, yet that it was paid for with money … upon the verdict of a jury, defendant Brown being represented by counsel.