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State of Tennessee
Supreme Court at Knoxville
September Term 1848

To His Excellency Neill S. Brown, Governor

The undersigned, Judges of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee now in session
at Knoxville, do hereby certify that Hon: W^m
B. Turley one of the Judges of this Court
is incompetent to preside on the trial of the
suit Philip S. Hale, Plaintiff in error against
Michael Darter's Lessee, now pending in said
Court at Knoxville, on account of his relation=
ship to the Plaintiff in error. We therefore
request the appointment of a Special Judge
to preside on the trial of said suit.

Given under our hands at the Knox=
ville the 20th day of September 1848.

Nathan Green
W^m. B. Turley
Robt. J M^cKinney