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  • Taylor v. Chandler

    56 Tenn. 349 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1872

    The general features of taxation, or of a public burden that may be imposed as such, are thus laid down by Judge Cooley in the case of “The People v. Township Board, reported in 9 Am. … Township Board .

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Harmon v. Angus R. Jessup Associates, Inc.

    619 S.W.2d 522 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Aug 3, 1981

    See Norman v. Tennessee State Board of Claims, 533 S.W.2d 719, 724 (Tenn. 1976) and cases cited therein. … Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia, 427 U.S. 307 , 96 S.Ct. 2562 , 49 L.Ed.2d 520 (1976).

    Cited 51 timesPublished
  • City of Memphis v. Memphis Water Co.

    52 Tenn. 495 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 21, 1871

    On the 18th of December, 1866, the Mayor and Aldermen passed an ordinance to create a board of commissioners for the erection, care, and maintenance of the Memphis water works. … We know of no better definition of a monopoly, than that given by Lord Coke, and adopted by the Supreme Court in the case of Charles River Bridge v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • King v. State

    83 Tenn. 51 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1885

    Davidson, 2 Cold., 184 , and Thurston v. State, 3 Cold., 115 . … These tracks corresponded in size with the defendant’s foot, and exactly fitted an old shoe of the defendant, which he had left the previous fall at the prosecutor’s house, where he had been boarding.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Schmitt v. Smith

    118 S.W.3d 348 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 30, 2003

    Brown, Jr., Judge No. … Starks v. Browning, 20 S.W.3d 645, 651 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1999). Tennessee Code Annotated section 23-2-103 (1994) provides a lien to an attorney who is substituted as plaintiff’s counsel after an action has begun.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • McQueen v. McCanless, Com'r.

    182 Tenn. 453 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 5, 1945

    V, page 224. … In Carter v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Patrece Edwards-Bradford v. Kellogg Company

    Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 5, 2023

    Dalal is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and is also board-certif,red in independent rnedical evaluations. … Sweat v. Superior Indus., 1nc.,966 S.W.2d 31,32 (Tenn. 1998); Boling v. Raytheon Co.,448 S.W.2d 405, 408 (Tenn. 1969). The Supreme Court reaffirmed this point of law in Trosper v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Bayless v. Knox County

    199 Tenn. 268 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 9, 1955

    Vance v. … In Hope v.

    Cited 26 timesPublished
  • State v. Brimmer

    876 S.W.2d 75 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 7, 1994

    This instruction, which was in accord with the case law at the time it was given, has been discussed at length in the recent case of State v. Brown, 836 S.W.2d 530 (Tenn.1992). … Brown, 479 U.S. 538, 545 , 107 S.Ct. 837, 841 , 93 L.Ed.2d 934 (1987). The issue is without merit.

    Cited 196 timesPublished
  • State v. Rice

    184 S.W.3d 646 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 22, 2006

    State v. Brown, 29 S.W.3d 427, 432 (Tenn.2000) (quoting Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14, 19 , 87 S.Ct. 1920 , 18 L.Ed.2d 1019 (1967)); see also Crane v. … Brown v. Sanders, - U.S. -, 126 S.Ct. 884, 892 , 163 L.Ed.2d 723 (2006). This new test does not alter our analysis or the result in this case.

    Abrogated in part by State v. Dorantes, 2011 Tenn. LEXIS 8 (2011)Cited 1,111 timesPublished
  • Hamilton Nat. Bank v. Amster

    134 Tenn. 537 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1915

    Ed., 821 ; State v. Webber, 214 Mo., 272 , 113 S. W., 1054 , 15 Ann. Cas., 983; Brown v. Balfour, 46 Minn., 68 , 48 N. W., 604 , 12 L. R. A., 373; Lodge v. Johnson, 98 Tex., 1 , 81 S. … In Brown v.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • State v. Cumberland Club

    136 Tenn. 84 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1916

    State v. Fickle, 3 Lea (71 Tenn.), 79; Garvin v. State, 13 Lea (81 Tenn.); 162; Railroad v. Crider, 91 Tenn., 489, 493 , 19 S. W., 618 ; State v. Brown, 103 Tenn., 449, 454-456 , 53 S. W., 727 ; State v. … Railroad Companies, supra; State v. *97 Brown, 103 Tenn., 449, 455 , 53 S. W., 727 ; Condon v Maloney, 108 Tenn., 82, 98-100 , 65 S. W., 871 ; Arbuckle v. McCutcheon, 111 Tenn., 514 , 77 S. W., 772 ; Memphis v.

    Cited 26 timesPublished
  • Fryar v. Hamilton County

    160 Tenn. 216 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 21, 1929

    See Woods v. Tipton Co., 7 Baxt., 112 ; Carothers v. Shelby Co., supra; Vance v. Shelby Co., 152 Tenn., 141 . … Board of Education v. Ray, 154 Tenn., 180 ; Vance v. Hale, 156 Tenn., 389 . This fact essential to establish their liability does not appear in the declaration either affirmatively or by reasonable inference.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Dwyer v. State National Bank

    114 Tenn. 693 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1905

    In Imboden v. … In the case of Florence Mining Company v. Brown, Receiver, etc., 124 U. S., 391 , 8 Sup. Ct, 534, 31 L. Ed., 424 , Mr.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Lightfoot v. Grove

    52 Tenn. 473 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 17, 1871

    Brown, 4 Yerg, 198. … We do not think it necessary to review the case of Wade v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Norton v. Ailor

    79 Tenn. 563 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1883

    It is also charged that respondent promised to pay reasonable board for the ward, but had only paid $175. $100 per annum is claimed in the bill as due complainant, less the $175 paid. … After the death of the child, his views we suspect •changed, and hence this suit. *566 The law governing this case is thus stated by this court in Maguinay v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • State v. Springfield

    97 Tenn. 302 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 26, 1896

    Brown and others, against John H. Springfield, to have bis office as Justice of the Peace declared vacant, on account of alleged abandonment. … As correctly said by the Court of Chancery Appeals, this Court virtually settled the principle controlling this case, when it, in the late case of Strain v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Sherman v. State

    125 Tenn. 19 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1911

    Brown v. State, 85 Tenn., 439 ; Hannum v. State, 90 Tenn., 653 . … In the case of Odle v. State, 6 Bax., 159 , the jury was taken to board at a small two-room house, at which place the prosecutor and his two daughters also came to board.

    Cited 53 timesPublished
  • State of Tennessee v. Susan Jo Walls

    537 S.W.3d 892 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 9, 2017

    State v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 18 S.W.3d 186, 192 (Tenn. 2000) (citing Super Flea Mkt. of Chattanooga, Inc. v. Olsen, 677 S.W.2d 449, 451 (Tenn. 1984); State ex rel. Lewis v. … Norma Faye Pyles Lynch Family Purpose LLC v. Putnam Cnty., 301 S.W.3d 196, 202 (Tenn. 2009); see also State v.

    Cited 26 timesPublished
  • City of Oak Hill v. State ex rel. First Christian Church

    492 S.W.2d 915 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 2, 1973

    The application was denied by the City’s Board of Zoning Appeals upon the ground relator had only 16.-02 acres of land upon which to construct the buildings. … State v. City of Oak Hill, 204 Tenn. 353 , 321 S.W.2d 557 (1959). The logical and reasonable construction of the Ordinance is that it creates two separate, distinct and noncumulative requirements of acreage.

    Cited 1 timesPublished

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