KNOX ET AL. v. SMITH ET AL.


45 U.S. 298 (1846)

4 How. 298

JOHN KNOX, JAMES BOGGS, AND JAMES A. KNOX, TRADING UNDER THE FIRM OF KNOX, BOGGS, & CO., APPELLANTS, v. PEYTON SMITH AND OTHERS, DEFENDANTS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Brinley, for the appellants, and Mr. Milton Brown, for the appellees.

Mr. Brinley, for the appellants.


Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court for the District of West Tennessee.

In their bill the complainants state that they recovered a judgment in the Circuit Court against Thomas Eckford and Probert P. Collier, for the sum of three thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars and twenty cents, &c.; and that execution was issued the 24th of April...

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