Tennessee Supreme Court June 15, 1837 (Wilson v. Turk)

Reese, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action commenced before a justice of the peace upon a lost note. The proceedings before the justice and in the county court were very irregular, but we have not deemed it material to look into those proceedings farther than to see *248that there was a judgment before the justice, which was not merely void, but that the proceedings before