Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee, for the Eastern Division at the September Term, 1871, Vol. 6 In the preface to 5th Heiskell our learned Attorney General placed fully before the public the circum stances which in his Opinion justified him in accepting the services of a corps of amateur reporters in bring ing up the arrears of unreported decisions. Nothing therefore remains for the editor of 6th Heiskell to say, except that while justly assuming responsibility for all its editorial shortcomings, frankly admitting that they are not few, he persuades himself that the profession in examining his book will remember that he undertook to serve them without fee or reward or the hope thereof, and will judge kindly. In good truth the editor conscientiously did his work as well as he could in the limited time at his disposal. He submits it, such as it is, to the candor of his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.