Case law

Woodbury v. Brown

101 Tenn. 707 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 9, 1899

Brown was arrested, tried, convicted, and fined for the violation of an ordinance *708 of the town of Woodbury. … It was held in Ruohs v. Athens, 91 Tenn., 20 , that the charter of the town of Athens was void because the first and second of these requirements had not been observed.

White v. Brown

559 S.W.2d 938 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 27, 1977

Similarly, in Williams v. … And, in Webb v.

Brown v. State

121 Tenn. 186 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1908

Webster v. State, 110 Tenn., 491 , 82 S. W., 179; Foster v. Speed, 112 Tenn., 470, 473 , 111 S. W., 925 . … The court cited Commonwealth v. Burns, 8 Gray, 482 , and Commonwealth v. Clark, 14 Gray, 367 , as sustaining this position.

Logan v. Brown

125 Tenn. 209 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1911

Ferry Co. v. East St. Louis, supra; also Fanning v. Gregoire. 16 How., 534 , 14 L. Ed., 1043 ; Conway v. Taylor, 1 Black, 603 , 17 L. Ed., 191 . *217 Second. The agreed statement of facts is peculiarly worded. … Woodruff v. Parham, 8 Wall., 123 , 19 L. Ed., 382 ; Brown v. Houston, 114 U. S., 622 , 5 Sup. Ct., 1091, 29 L. Ed., 257 . As was observed by tbe supreme court, in tbe case of American Steel & Wire Company v.

Brown v. Cooper

62 Tenn. 153 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1873

Flournoy v. Brown

216 Tenn. 166 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 2, 1965

Brown brought this action on November 14, 1963, to recover an alleged loan made to defendant, James D. Flournoy, represented by four checks issued to defendant in April and May 1954. … The record in the Chancery Court proceeding shows the original bill of complainant, Brown, was filed on June 7, 1960. The defendant filed an answer on July 21, 1960.

Brown v. Sams

119 Tenn. 677 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1907

The cases of Clovers v. Sawyers, 1 Head, 157 , and Stallcup v. Bradly, 3 Cold., 407 , were decided before the statute of 1875 was enacted. … Fisher v. Baldridge, 91 Tenn., 418 , 19 S. W., 227 ; McCampbell v. State, 116 Tenn., 107 , 93 S. W., 100 . Tbe latter act creates a greater necessity for partition fences than existed before it was passed.

Ross v. Brown

2 Tenn. 210 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Aug 6, 1813

After the first entry of Brown for 456 acres, and previously to the second for 146 acres, Ross enters the same land, and upon a survey for Brown for the whole 602 acres, being the whole of his 5,000 acre tract, which was … Agreeably to act of assembly, Brown the caveatee must pay the cost, the caveator having succeeded in recovering part of the land caveated.

Lyon v. Brown

65 Tenn. 64 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1873

Brown a party plaintiff. The defendant then moved the court to dismiss the suit, because the jury had been sworn to try the issue between Clinton A. Brown and wife, plaintiffs, and A. L. … In the case of Eakin v. Burger, 1 Sneed, 424 , this court, speaking of the act of 1852, ch. 152, carried into the Code as sec. 2869, say: “ This is a very strong and universal statute of jeofails.

Brown v. Vaughn

203 Tenn. 220 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 6, 1957

This case is a sequel to the case of Brown v. Thurman, decided by this Court on March 8, 1957, and reported in 201 Tenn. 474 , 300 S.W.2d 883 . … Brown and Mrs. Charles Vaughn were opposing candidates in the election of August 2, 1956, for the office of Superintendent of Schools for Clay County. On *223 August 1, 1956, the bill in Brown v.

State v. Brown

50 Tenn. 1 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 21, 1870

Ju'lge Whyte, in delivering the opinion of this court, in the case State v. … State v. Wimberly, 3 McCord, 190 , cited in 1 Wat. Arch. Cr. Pl., 304, n. These views are further supported by the authorities cited in the same book, pp. 262, 300.

Brown v. Newman

224 Tenn. 297 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 4, 1970

Brown and Jake "West, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs, each for $150,000.00 damages for alleged libelous matter published by the defendants. … Tennessean Newspapers, Inc., supra; Fry v. McCord (1895), 95 Tenn. 678 , 33 S.W. 568 ; Bank v. Bowdre Bros. (1893), 92 Tenn. 723 , 23 S.W. 131 ; and in the absence thereof the suit must be dismissed.

Brown v. Harris

180 Tenn. 81 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 29, 1943

Brown v. Hamlett

76 Tenn. 732 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1882

Legislative acts fall within the rule, and it has been well said, that a thing which is *736 in the letter of a statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the law makers: State v. … Co., 2 Sneed, 88 ; Perkins v. Gibbs, 1 Baxt., 175 ; Gold v. Fite, 2 Baxt., 249 .

Brown v. Grayson

160 Tenn. 374 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 1, 1930

Beard v. Bricker, 32 Tenn., 50 ; Sullivan v. Ivey, 34 Tenn., 487 . In forcible entry and detainer the title cannot he inquired into in an action at law. Shultz v. Elliott, 30 Tenn., 186 ; William Redmond v. … Thomas Bowles, 37 Tenn., 551 ; Phillips v. Sampson, 39 Tenn., 429 ; Beaty v. Jones, 41 Tenn., 487 ; Stackley v. Cissna, 119 Tenn., 150 . The rule is different in equity. William Redmond v. Thomas Bowles, supra.

Brown v. Hunt

59 Tenn. 404 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 15, 1873

Upon careful reflection, however, upon this case, we do not think it can be distinguished in principle from the case of Booker v. Booker, 5 Hum., 507 . The clause of the will thus construed was as follows. … For this the court cited Thompson v. McKissick, 3 Hum., 631 ; Davis v. Richardson, 10 Yer., 290 ; Smith v. Bell, Mar. & Yer., 302,— the well known and familiar cases in our State.

Hackett v. Brown

49 Tenn. 264 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 4, 1871

See Wilson v. Smith, 5 Yer., 379 ; Turbeville v. Ryan, 1 Hum., 113 . See, also, 5 Yer., 453 ; 2 Swan, 237 ; 1 Head, 209 ; Ib., 610; 2 Head, 565 . … In Bush v.

Brown Ex Rel. Brown v. Wal-Mart Discount Cities

12 S.W.3d 785 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 31, 2000

At trial, Mitchell Brown’s mother, Lisa Brown, testified that she entered the vestibule with her two young children and walked toward the pay telephone to make a call to her husband. … George v.

Brown v. Vanlier

26 Tenn. 239 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1846

Stoker v. Brown

583 S.W.2d 765 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jul 9, 1979

In Hines v. … Brown or his immediate predecessor in title who acquired the farm in 1942.