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  • Ezell v. Cockrell

    902 S.W.2d 394 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 5, 1995

    See also State to use of Cardin v. McClellan, 113 Tenn. 616, 625 , 85 S.W. 267 , 269 (1905); Cary v. Brown, 3 Tenn.Civ.App. (Higgins) 399, 401-02 (1912). … City of Omaha, 222 Neb. 293 , 384 N.W.2d 254, 257 (1986); Schear v. Board of County Com’rs of Bernalillo County, 101 N.M. 671, 673-74 , 687 P.2d 728, 730-31 (1984); Brennen v.

    Cited 106 timesPublished
  • Stubbs v. State

    216 Tenn. 567 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 2, 1965

    A 6-shot .32 calibre Smith and Wesson revolver with blood on it was found on the floor board of the back seat of the car. … Underwood v. Brown, 193 Tenn. 113, 122 , 244 S.W.2d 168, 172 . The interesting question in this lawsuit is whether or not the testimony as taken in 1954 of Mr.

    Cited 119 timesPublished
  • R. Douglas Hughes v. New Life Development Corporation

    387 S.W.3d 453 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 19, 2012

    C. v. Resources Planning Corp., 596 S.E.2d 51 (S.C. 2004); Larkin v. City of Burlington, 772 A.2d 553 (Vt. 2001); Board of Managers of Medinah on Lake Homeowners Ass’n v. Bank of Ravenswood, 692 N.E.2d 402 (Ill. App. … Unit Owners’ Ass’n v. Brown, 566 N.E.2d 1275, 1277-78 (Ohio Ct. App. 1989); see also Buckingham v. Weston Vill.

    Cited 190 timesPublished
  • Mullinax v. American Trust & Banking Co.

    189 Tenn. 220 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 10, 1949

    Pease & Dwyer v. State National Bank, 114 Tenn. 693 , 88 S. W. 172 ; Third Nat. Bank in Nashville v. Carver, Tenn. App., 218 S. W. 2d 66 ; 7 Am. … Bank in Nashville v. Carver, supra, the bank paid a check after receiving a stop-payment order by telephone from the depositor.

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  • Madison Suburban Utility Dist. v. Carson

    191 Tenn. 300 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 9, 1950

    The corporation’s affairs are directed by a Board of Commissioners who serve without compensation and are self-perpetuating. … Thus, in Brown v. State of Maryland, 12 Wheat. 419, 444 , 6 L. Ed. 678, 687 , it was held that the tax on the occupation of'an importer was the same as a tax on imports and therefore void.

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  • Lummus Cotton Gin Co. v. Arnold

    151 Tenn. 540 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1924

    Browning v. Waycross, 233 U. S. 16 , 34 S. Ct., 578 , 58 L. Ed. 828 . … See, also Palm Vacuum Cleaner Co. v. Bjornstad, 136 Minn. 38 , 161 N. W., 215 , L. R. A., 1917C, 1012, and notes *554 thereto. The cases cited in the note to-the case last cited show that the rule stated in Browning v.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • City of Memphis, Tennessee v. Tre Hargett, Secretary of State

    414 S.W.3d 88 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 17, 2013

    Barnett v. Hicks, 119 Wash.2d 151 , 829 P.2d 1087, 1093 (1992). In addition, a party cannot waive the application of the correct standard' of review by failing to argue it. Brown v. … Marion County Election Board.

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  • Morrow v. State

    82 Tenn. 475 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1884

    In Moffit v. The State, 2 Hum., 99 , it was held that the wife of one of two persons jointly indicted for an assault and battery, is a competent witness for the other defendant tried separately. And in Workman v. … And in Poteete v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Rich v. Scales

    116 Tenn. 57 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1905

    Brown street and on its southerly side by Houston street. Said lot has a frontage on Brown street of 315 feet and on Houston street of 512 feet. … Brown, 4 Baxt., 124 , 133; Shields v. Thompson, 4 Baxt., 227, 230 ; Blakemore v. Kimmons, 8 Baxt., 470 , 473; Witherspoon v. Porter, 1 Tenn; Cas., 666; Hillis v. Martin, 2 Tenn. Cas., 273, 275 ; Myers v.

    Cited 19 timesPublished
  • Spradling v. Bituminous Casualty Corp.

    182 Tenn. 443 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 5, 1945

    Willie Brown and Mr. … Tbe decisions of Norwood v. Tellico River Lbr. Co., 146 Tenn. 682 , 244 S. W. 490 , 24 A. L. R. 1227, and McClain v. Kingsport Imp. Corp., 147 Tenn., 130 , 245 S.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Danny A. Stewart v. Derrick D. Schofield, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction

    368 S.W.3d 457 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 25, 2012

    See Carter v. Bell, 279 S.W.3d 560, 568 (Tenn. 2009); Hessmer v. Hessmer, 138 S.W.3d 901, 903 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2003); Young v. Barrow, 130 S.W.3d 59, 63 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2003). … Petitioner properly named the Board and Board officials in a petition for common law writ of certiorari,18 alleging, based on Howell v.

    Cited 137 timesPublished
  • De Soto Lumber Co. v. Loeb

    110 Tenn. 251 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1903

    We are referred by counsel to Brown v. Brown, 2 Sneed, 431 , as authority for the practice adopted by him in this case. … As to the second point, it is true that Lane v. Wood is directly opposed to the previous case of Brown v. Brown . What was said in Brown v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Kevin Turner v. Stephanie D. Turner

    473 S.W.3d 257 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 21, 2015

    Landers v. Jones, 872 S.W.2d 674, 675 (Tenn. 1994); Kane v. Kane, 547 S.W.2d 559, 560 (Tenn. 1977); Brown v. Brown, 296 S.W. 356, 358 (Tenn. 1927). … The Court revisited Mullane thirty-three years later in Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams, 462 U.S. 791 (1983). There, a landowner signed a mortgage in favor of the Mennonite Board of Missions. Id. at 792.

    Cited 110 timesPublished
  • State v. Lemacks

    996 S.W.2d 166 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jul 6, 1999

    See State v. Brown, 823 S.W.2d at 581-82. … See Brown, 823 S.W.2d at 583. See also Carter v.

    Cited 343 timesPublished
  • Reaves Lumber Co. v. Cain-Hurley Lumber Co.

    152 Tenn. 339 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 6, 1925

    State, 5 Humph., 108 ; McDaniel v. Douglas, 6 Humph., 227 ; McKisick v. McKisick, 1 Meigs, 431 ; Russell v. Pyland, 2 Humph., 131 ; Parks v. McKamy, 3 Head., 297, 319, 723.” While Naff v. … The line of cases relied on by learned counsel for Reaves, such as Browning v. Waycross, 233 U. S., 23 , 34 S. Ct., 578 , 58 L. Ed., 828 , and Hogan v. Intertype Corp., 136 Ark., 52, 206 S.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Holmes v. Jarrett Moon & Co.

    54 Tenn. 506 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 14, 1872

    Moreau v. Saffarans, 3 Sneed, 599 . … Ward v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Adams v. Monroe County Quarterly Court

    214 Tenn. 270 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 4, 1964

    In the case of Cantrell v. … People v. Whitman, 178 App.Div. 193 , 165 N.Y.S. 148, 149 . Roach v. Eugene, 23 Or. 376 , 31 P. 825 .

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  • Stinnett v. Tom-Ken Builders, Inc.

    214 Tenn. 262 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 4, 1964

    There was a recorded deed to Brown and wife conveying a part of this land lying wholly in Marion County. The Browns began to cut and take away *267 timber growing on tbe small tract in Marion County. … “The insistence immediately above stated must be rejected”. *268 The Court, in Carter v. Brown, supra, quoted with approval from Crosby Milling Company v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • State v. Leach

    148 S.W.3d 42 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 8, 2004

    Leach contends that this instruction invited the jury to consider the attack on Brown as establishing Leach’s propensity to commit the crimes in this case, in *58 violation of this Court’s holding in State v. … See State v. Williams, 977 S.W.2d 101, 106 (Tenn.1998). We therefore conclude that, viewed as a whole, the instruction regarding evidence of the attack on Brown was not erroneous.

    Cited 339 timesPublished
  • State v. Daniel

    Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 31, 2000

    I have found no suggestion that the federal cases cited by the majority have overruled Terry v. Ohio or Brown v. … This case meets the Brown v. Texas and Hughes v.

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