Opinion

McCord v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. L. Ry.

  • 187 Tenn. 277
  • 23 Beeler 277
  • 213 S.W.2d 196
  • 1948 Tenn. LEXIS 429
Court
Tennessee Supreme Court
Filed
May 3, 1948
Status
Published
Author
Neil
On the bench
Gtailok, Neil
Cited by
19 cases

describing constructive fraud as “an elusive creature of equity characterized by an absence of intent”

How later courts described this case

  • describing constructive fraud as “an elusive creature of equity characterized by an absence of intent”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Neil, C. J.,

dissents.

I dissent from the majority opinion in this case for the same reason and upon the same grounds as set forth in my dissenting opinion in Jim McCord v. Southern Railway Company this day decided, p. 271 supra.

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