County courts of both were held in the same counties; the militia were called out by both sets of officers; taxes were levied by both Legislatures.

[Footnote: Haywood, 160.] The Franklin courts were held at Jonesboro, the North Carolina courts at Buffalo, ten miles distant; and each court in turn was broken up by armed bands of the opposite party.

Criminals throve in the confusion, and the people refused to pay taxes to either party.

Brawls, with their brutal accompaniments of gouging and biting, were common.
Sevier and Tipton themselves, on one occasion when they by chance met, indulged in a rough-and-tumble fight before their friends could interfere.
Growing Confusion.
Throughout the year '86 the confusion gradually grew worse.

A few days after the Greenville convention met, the Legislature of North Carolina passed an act in reference to the revolt.