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1895 Tennessee Supreme Court Writ of Fieri Facias 📜 Goodpasture-Signed, Nashville Legal History, Lanier v. Turner No. 17030, Davidson County Document los_angeles_lithograph You are not looking atThe Writ That Outlived Everyone Who Signed It In the winter of 1895, a single sheet of paper left the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, in Nashville, and went to work. It was a writ of fieri facias an order of execution and its whole purpose was to make a judgment real: to send an officer of the county out to collect what a court had decided was owed. It did its job, it was returned, and then, like nearly all such paperwork, it