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  • Foppiano v. Speed

    113 Tenn. 167 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1904

    After a hearing the clerk held that Poppiano was liable for the tax, and from this holding an appeal was taken to the State board of equalization, which board affirmed the holding of the county court clerk. … Tbe center of tbe Mississippi river is tbe line between Tennessee and Arkansas (Moss v. Gibbs, 10 Heisk., 283 ; Stockley v. Cissna, 119 Fed., 821 , 56 C. C. A., 324 ; Missouri v. Kentucky, 11 Wall., 395 , 20 L.

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  • City of Chattanooga v. Powell

    133 Tenn. 137 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1915

    A., 542; Swearingen v. Consolidated Troup Min. Co., 212 Mo., 524 , 111 S. W., 545 ; Allen v. Gilman (C. C.), 127 Fed., 609 ; Consolidated Coal Co. v. Shepherd, 220 Ill., 123 , 77 N. E., 133 ; Baccelli v. … We are réferred to the case of Brown v. Electric Co., 101 Tenn., 252 , 47 S. W., 415 , 70 Am. St. Rep., 666 . That case is not in point.

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  • Saulman v. Mayor of Nashville

    131 Tenn. 427 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1914

    Cas., 847; Bullmaster v. St. Joseph, 70 Mo. App., 60 ; Boothe v. Fulton, 85 Mo. App., 19 ; Rhobidas v. City of Concord, 70 N. H., 90; 47 Atl., 82 , 51 L. R. A., 381, and note, 85 Am. St. Rep., 604 ; Brown v. … Mayor of Memphis v. Lasser, 28 Tenn. (9 Humph.), 757; Mayor, etc., of Nashville v. Brown, 56 Tenn. (9 Heisk.), 1, 24 Am. Rep., 289 ; Mayor of Knoxville, etc., v. Bell 80 Tenn. (12 Lea), 157; Oliver v.

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  • Sales v. Southern Trust Co.

    182 Tenn. 270 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 3, 1945

    Reeves v. Reeves, 73 Tenn. 644 ; Rhodes v. Rhodes, 88 Tenn. 637 , 13 S.W. 590 ; Wilson v. Clinton Chapel African M.E. Zion Church, 138 Tenn. 398 , 198 S.W. 244 , and others. In Wilson v. Clinton Chapel African M.E. … In Rhodes v.

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  • State v. Mitchell

    682 S.W.2d 918 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 31, 1984

    Brown v. Ohio, 432 U.S. 161, 168-69 , 97 S.Ct. 2221, 2226-27 , 63 L.Ed.2d 187 (1977); State v. Cloud, 688 S.W.2d 552 , 553 (Tenn.1979). … State v. Smith, 627 S.W.2d 356, 358 (Tenn.1982).

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  • Tagg v. Tennessee National Bank

    56 Tenn. 479 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1872

    If he have such knowledge he is bound to communicate it to the Board.” … Agricultural Bank v. Robinson, 24 Maine, 276; Lime Rock Bank v. Hewitt, 50 Maine, 269.

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  • Bank of Commerce & Trust Co. v. Senter

    149 Tenn. 569 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1923

    In support of this insistence, the defendants cite Railroad v. Bate, 12 Lea, 573 ; State v. Taxing Board, 16 Lea, 240 ; Briscoe v. McMillan, 117 Tenn., 115 , 100 S. W., 111 ; Smoky Mountain v. … Ward v. Alsup, 100 Tenn., 745 , 46 S. W., 573 ; Tomlinson v. Board of Equalization, 88 Tenn., 1 , 12 S. W., 414 , 6 L. R. A., 207; Briscoe v. McMillan, 117 Tenn., 115 , 100 S. W., 111 ; Smoky Mountain Co. v.

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  • State v. Christopher M. Flake

    Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 10, 2003

    (citing State v. Sparks, 891 S.W.2d 607, 616 (Tenn. 1995); State v. Jackson, 890 S.W.2d 436, 440 (Tenn. 1994); Edwards v. State, 540 S.W.2d 641, 647 (Tenn. 1976)). … Coe v.

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  • State v. U. S. Grant University

    115 Tenn. 238 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1905

    Counsel cite Maryville College v. Bartlett, 8 Baxt., 231 ; Bache v. Nashville Horticultural Society, 10 Lea, 437 ; Rogersville, etc., R. R. v. W. C. Kyle, 9 Lea, 691 ; Parker v. Bethel Hotel Co., 96 Tenn., 273 , 34 S. … In the case of Railroad v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Keith v. State

    218 Tenn. 395 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 22, 1966

    On the other hand, there are some cases in which even a mention of any board or body with pardoning or parole powers has been ruled reversible error. Taylor v. State, 42 Ala.App. 617 , 174 So.2d 385 (1965). … In State v.

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  • Helton v. Knox County, Tenn.

    922 S.W.2d 877 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 13, 1996

    There were paddle boards—long narrow boards containing black and yellow hash marks—located on each side of the roadway at the ends of the bridge. … Bowers, 826 S.W.2d at 431 (quoting Peavler v. Board of Commissioners, 528 N.E.2d 40, 44-45 (Ind.1988)).

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  • Merritt v. Duncan

    54 Tenn. 156 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 6, 1872

    The same doctrine is laid down in Nallett v. Parker, 6 Wend., 615 ; Mickles v. Calvin, 4 Barb., 304 ; Woodhull v. Holmes, 10 John. R., 231; Munroe v. Cowper, 5 Pick. R., 412. … The same doctrine was recognized in Van Wyck v. Norvell, 2 Hum., 195 .; and in Ryland v. Brown, *164 2 Head, 273 .

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  • Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Williamson

    137 Tenn. 152 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1916

    W., 384 , and these two cases are supported by the principles announced in the following of our reported cases: Parris v. Brown, 5 Yerg., 267 ; Hanning v. Wells, 9 Humph., 746 , 51 Am. Dec., 688 ; Odell v. … Koppee, 5 *155 Heisk., 90 ; Wood v. Hancock, 4 Humph., 467 ; Watkins v. Kittrell, 3 Baxt., 42 ; and other authorities cited in Railroad v. Flood, supra. But it does not follow from what was held in Railroad v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Peters v. White

    103 Tenn. 390 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 6, 1899

    After she had been in the workhouse a- day or two, the Superintendent told her she would have to send' the child away, or pay board for it. … The cases of Cornell v. The State, 6 Lea, 624 ; Smith v. The State, 8 Lea, 744 , and Boone v. The State, 8 Lea, 739 , are in accord with this holding.

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  • Ivy v. Osborne

    152 Tenn. 470 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 6, 1925

    Robertson v. Lessan, 7 Cold., 159 ; Rose v. Lane, 3 Humph., 218 ; State v. Slagle. 115 Tenn., 339 , 89 S. W., 326 . … L., 982; 35 Cyc., 1624; Brown v. Wallis, 100 Tex., 546, 101 S. W., 1070 , 12 L. R. A. (N. S.), 1019. The action lies only against the deputy, not in his capacity as an officer, but as a personal wrongdoer.

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  • Mason v. Smith

    79 Tenn. 67 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1883

    Brown, 4 Yer., 198 . And so it has been invariably held: Smith v. Erwin, 5 Yer., 296 ; Tipton v. Anderson, 8 Yer., 222 ; Maxwell v. Salts, 4 Cold., 235 . … In Gholson v. Brown, 4 Yer., 496 , the action was covenant and the ' recovery in damages. The appeal bond was only for costs and damages. The point was made that the words of the bond covered the judgment.

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  • Governor v. Allen

    27 Tenn. 176 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1847

    The condition of this bond being broken, a suit thereon was commenced at the July term, 1846, of the circuit court of Montgomery in the name of Aaron V. Brown, Governor, in and over the State of Tennessee, against G. P. … Bbfore entering into a general investigation of this subject we deem it proper to premise, that the bringing this suit in the name of Aaron V. Brown, governor and successor of James C.

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  • Planter's Ins. Co. v. Sorrels

    60 Tenn. 352 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1872

    Sorrels, a brother of the assured, occupied the dwelling as a boarding-house. It does not avoid the policy of insurance that a house insured as a dwelling-house is, or was after insurance, occupied as a boarding-house. … In the case of the Union Mutual Insurance Company v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • City of Elizabethton v. Boone

    205 Tenn. 617 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 2, 1959

    Moreover it is upon such facts that the Carter County Court and the County Board of Education formally agreed that this was a proper and lawful allocation of school funds in the case at bar. … The opinion of the Court *625 in Southern v. Beeler, 183 Tenn. 272 , 195 S.W.2d 857 , is not in conflict with this calculation and allocation of funds. The appeallants’ counsel relies almost entirely upon Guffee v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. Railroad & Public Utilities Commission

    161 Tenn. 592 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 13, 1930

    Board of R. Comrs. v. Great Northern R. Co., supra. … As said by the Supreme Court in Board of Railroad Commissioners v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished

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