Tennessee Supreme Court December 15, 1874 (Dews v. Olwill)

McFarland, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The complainant in this bill alleges that he was the creditor to the amount of about $7,500 of. a firm previously engaged in the coal trade at Nashville, under the style of George R. Sampson & Co., composed of Sampson, Philip Doyle and George H. Holden, that he had brought suit on his demand in the Circuit Court, but the cause had not been tried.