RULES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS AND APPEALS, OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, RELATIVE TO TAKING DEPOSITIONS.; Adopted at Nashville, January Term, 1825

[Nashville: np], 1825. Broadside, 39.5 x 31.5 cm., printed in two columns. Below the text is a partly printed statement, completed in manuscript, regarding a case before "any Justice of the Peace for Washington County," between Alfred W. Taylor and Henry Wilkes, dated Jan. 30, 1827, signed in ink by Thomas N. Clark, Clerk of the Court in Kingston, Tennessee. Docketed on verso. The justice of the peace was to take oaths, or affirmations if the witness was "of that sect celled (sic) quakers," and record the depositions. Old fold lines, one or two small breaks at folds, else a very good copy. No listings for this broadside on OCLC. One copy found in the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at the Knox County Tennessee Public Library. Under the Tennessee Constitution of 1796, the legislature was responsible for establishing a court system. In 1809 the legislature created the Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals comparable to the present day Supreme Court. The judges of this court traveled throughout the state hearing appeals from other courts. The Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals came to an end in 1835 when a Supreme Court was established that could not be abolished by the legislature. (Inventory #: 69791)