Carroll_Letter_165_49646

State of Tennessee Supreme Court of Errors and appeals at Nashville

Whereas there is pending in said Court the following cause to wit Morgan Brown, James Moore, William Armstrong, William Thompson & Elizabeth his wife formerly Elizabeth Vance George Childress & Margaret Childress his wife formerly Margaret Vance Morgan B. Vance William L. Vance, Elizabeth L. Vance infants by W^m Thompson & Elizabeth Thompson these guardians Complainants against Nathaniel A M^cNairy Defendant on the Chancery docket in which cause two of the judges of said Court are incompetent to hear and determine the same

We therefore certify the same to his Excellency the Governor of said State to the end that he may appoint two special judges to aid in hearing and deciding said cause, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly of said State passed January 10^th 1830 Chapter 96 section one Given under our hands at Nashville this first day of March A.D. 1831

Jn. Catron Jacob Peck Robert Whyte