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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.
Cited 2 timesPublished133 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.
Cited 4 timesPublished131 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.
Cited 22 timesPublished182 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.
Cited 4 timesPublished682 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).
Cited 7 timesPublishedTagg 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.
Cited 2 timesPublishedBank 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.
Cited 51 timesPublishedTennessee 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.
Cited 0 timesPublishedState 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 timesPublished218 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.
Cited 8 timesPublished922 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)).
Cited 53 timesPublished54 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 .
Cited 2 timesPublishedNashville, 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 timesPublished103 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.
Cited 3 timesPublished152 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.
Cited 26 timesPublished79 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.
Cited 2 timesPublished27 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.
Cited 0 timesPublished60 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 timesPublished205 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 timesPublishedNashville, 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.
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