Case Name: HENDERSON vs. LACKEY
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1808-09
Citations: 2 Overt. 110
Docket Number: 
Parties: HENDERSON vs. LACKEY
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 110–110

Head Matter:
HENDERSON vs. LACKEY
Knoxville
Sept. 1808
Certiorari; rule to dismiss.
Wilkinson for the petitioner
said, much inconvenience had arisen from these rules to dismiss certiorari’s. Upon obtaining a rule, the grounds ought to be stated. The petition disclosed a discovery of material testimony after the trial below.
Grounds for dismissing Certioraris.

Opinion:
Overton J.
There can exist but two grounds for dismissing. 1st. The not shewing why the ordinary remedy by appeal was not resorted to. 2nd. A want of merits apparent upon the face of the petition. He was inclined to think that the petition ought not to be dismissed, but that it should have a trial here.