JONES v. STATE


253 S.W.2d 740 (1952)

JONES, Sheriff, et al. v. STATE, for Use of COFFEY et al. and companion cases.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 5, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurman Ailor, of Knoxville, for plaintiffs-in-error.

Jennings, O'Neil & Jarvis, of Knoxville, for defendants-in-error.


NEIL, Chief Justice.

In response to the petition to rehear we wish to assure the petitioner at the outset that the petition for certiorari was considered "by the Court as a whole", and not as petitioner seems to think by a single member thereof.

In these seven cases, which were tried together by consent of counsel, the declarations were identical in language which charged the Sheriff with wrongs allegedly committed by his Deputies, acting in an official...

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