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| Title | Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Volume 114 |
| Authors | Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler |
| Publisher | Rich Printing Company, 1906 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 12 Jul 2007 |
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