Johnson v. Murphy
This text of 64 S.W. 895 (Johnson v. Murphy) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Tennessee Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
C. H. Johnson and others, next of kin of W. C. Newman, deceased, filed this bill against J. D. Murphy, administrator, and the sureties on his bond, for a settlement of the estate. On appeal, the Supreme- Court rendered a decree in favor of the complainants for $5,285.09 and remanded the cause for collection thereof and distribution among those entitled. Thereupon decree was entered in the lower Court, in accordance with the [559]*559j'procedendo, and the -defendants sued out this writ of error.
A writ of error will not lie in such a case, otherwise the litigation might become endless. If it will lie after one remand it will lie after another, and another, and so on, without limit, and the execution of the decree of this Court, through a ^pro-cedendo to the lower Court, may by that means be made practically impossible.
Dismiss the writ.
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