Case Name: CATE v. LITTLE
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1850-09
Citations: 1 Shan. Cas. 39
Docket Number: 
Parties: CATE v. LITTLE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Cases with Notes and Annotations
Volume: 1
Pages: 39–40

Head Matter:
CATE v. LITTLE.
(S. C., Thomp. Cas., 63.)
Knoxville,
September Term, 1850.
1. YEAR’S SUPPORT. Recovery on choses in action assigned for.
Where a debt due the estate of her deceased husband is assigned to the widow for a year’s support, she may, by suit brought in her own name, without the aid or intervention of the personal representative, recover the same. [She may recover in her own name; she may revive husband’s suit in. her own name; she takes the chose in action subject to all the equities and legal set-offs existing against her deceased ■ husband. Notes 4-6 under sec. 4031 of the Code.]
3. SAME. Same. Debtor cannot question assignment.
The assig-nment to the widow cannot be questioned by the debtor, for the jurisdiction of the county court is exclusive, and its action will be presumed to be correct. [Note 16 under sec. 4031, and note 5 under sec. 6050 of Code.]

Opinion:
McKinney, J.:
This was an action brought before a justice of the peace by a widow upon a debt due to her husband, and assigned to her by commissioners appointed by the county court to lay off a year's support. The assignment vested the widow with a legal right to sue, and suit was properly brought by her in her own name. The assignment to the widow cannot be questioned by the debtor. The county court is upon this subject a court of exclusive jurisdiction, and its action will be presumed to be correct.