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  • Barnes v. Fort

    181 Tenn. 522 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 10, 1944

    In Brown v. … In Tyner v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Perkins v. Perkins

    56 Tenn. 95 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1871

    Brown & Walker and Campbell & McEwen. The complainant brings the case up by writ of error. … solicitors of the several parties are entitled to a lien upon the recovery of their «clients for reasonable fees, and this lien has been held to attach to real estate, where it is the subject matter of litigation: See Hunt v.

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  • Sizemore v. E. T. Barwick Industries, Inc.

    225 Tenn. 226 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 5, 1971

    In the case of Sturgill Lumber Company v. … The claimant filed his application for compensation with the Workmen’s Compensation Board on September 9, 1966.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Carne v. Maryland Casualty Company

    208 Tenn. 403 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 5, 1961

    See Brown v. Stephens, 165 Tenn. 85 , 52 S.W.2d 146 , and authorities there cited. No suit having been brought as stated in the cause of action herein set forth, the right of action died with Dr. … Stewart v. Crook Sanartorium, 17 Tenn.App. 589 , 69 S.W.2d 259 (certiorari denied). The Arkansas courts in Billingsley v. St.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Bayless v. Estes

    48 Tenn. 78 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1870

    In the case of Jones v. … there could be no just exception, but the plaintiff below was permitted to introduce as rebutting testimony against objection that previous to the arrest in question, in February, 1863, he was brought before an examining board

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  • Mt. Olivet Cemetery Co. v. Shubert

    39 Tenn. 116 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1858

    It was to the interest of the company, that its other laborers and hands should be boarded near their work; and he was induced to open a boarding house for that purpose, in one of the houses of the company upon its grounds … Vide, the note to Nelson v. Marley, 2 Yer., 576 , and authorities there collected.

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  • Mt. Olivet Cemetery Co. v. Shubert

    39 Tenn. 116 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1858

    It was to the interest of the company, that its other laborers and hands should be boarded near their work; and he was induced to open a boarding house for that purpose, in one of the houses of the company upon its grounds … Vide, the note to Nelson v. Marley, 2 Yer., 576 , and authorities there collected.

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  • Falls v. Building & Loan Ass'n

    105 Tenn. 18 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 6, 1900

    Code (Shannon’s) §6131; *25 Lowe v. Morris, 4 Sneed, 69 ; Brazleton v. Brooks, 2 Head, 193 ; Stockley . v. Rowley, Id., 492; Lowry v. Naff, 4 Cold., 370 ; Vincent v. Vincent, 1 Heis., 333. … Sawyer v. Hoag, 17 Wall., 610 .

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Souey v. State

    81 Tenn. 472 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1884

    belief at the time, founded upon a reasonable ground, that it was necessary to take the life of the deceased in order to protect his own life, or savo him from great bodily harm, the prisoner himself being in no fault: Hull v. … The deceased went also with the witness to his boarding-house, where the defendant boarded, and could not be induced to go to his own boarding-house. He said he would eat supper, and kill defendant.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Gresham v. Ford

    192 Tenn. 310 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 16, 1951

    In the Floyd case, supra- the holding of which was re-affirmed by this Court in Quinley v. Cocke, supra, it is said: “And in Duckworth v. … “And in Boyce v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • McLaughlin v. City of Chattanooga

    180 Tenn. 638 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 5, 1944

    Silverman v. Chattanooga, 165 Tenn., 642 , 57 S. W. (2d), 552 ; Newman v. Ashe, 68 Tenn., 380 ; Reams v. McMinnville, 155 Tenn., 222 , 291 S. W., 1067 , and City of Nashville v. Vaughn, 158 Tenn., 498 , 14 S. … State v. Tampa Waterworks Co., 56 Fla., 858 , 47 So., 358 , 19 *643 L. R. A. (N. S.), 183; City of Crawfordsville v. Braden, 130 Ind., 149 , 28 N. E., 849 , 14 L. R. A., 268, 30 Am. St. Rep., 214 ; Lucia v.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Dyer v. State

    79 Tenn. 509 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1883

    Brown, 5 Heis., 237; Smith v. State, 9 Hum., 10 . A plea alleging matter contrary to the record is bad: 1 Bish. Cr. Pr., sees. 885, 1346. … Ve have followed the Engli-.h law without noticing the effect, if any, of a change of system: Bennet v. State, M. & Y., 133; State v. Duncan, 7 Yer., 271 ; State v. Baker, 4 Hum., 12 ; State v. Deason, 6 Baxt., 511 .

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Venable v. Curd

    39 Tenn. 582 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1859

    Taylor v. Skaine, 2 South Ca. Rep., 696; People v. Collins, 7 Johns. Rep., 549; McInstry v. Tanner, 9 Johns. Rep., 135. The same rule is laid down by this Court in Pearce v. Hawkins, 2 Swan, 87 . … We have been referred by the counsel of the plaintiffs in error, to Gregg v. Cooke, Peck’s Rep., 82, and Brown v. Newby, 6 Yer., 395 . But it is manifest that in these cases, as also in Smith v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • State v. Hester

    324 S.W.3d 1 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 5, 2010

    Webb’s] alleged service on a county board of equalization.” … Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. at 51 n.2 (plurality opinion). 87 Brown v. Crawford, 408 F.3d 1027, 1027 (8th Cir. 2005). 88 See, e.g., Rolling v.

    Cited 547 timesPublished
  • Schultz v. Lewallen

    188 Tenn. 206 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 11, 1948

    Patton v. City of Chattanooga, 108 Tenn. 197 , 65 S.W. 414 ; Wright v. Nashville Gas & Heating Co., 183 Tenn. 594 , 194 S. W. (2d) 459 ; State v. Staten, 46 Tenn. 233 . … O’Neil v. Jones, 185 Tenn. 539 , 206 S.W. (2d) 782 , 1 A. L. R. (2d) 581; Buena Vista Special School Dist. v. Board of Election Com’rs, 173 Tenn. 198, 201 , 116 S. W. (2d) 1008 .

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • State of Tennessee v. Marlo Davis

    466 S.W.3d 49 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 3, 2015

    See State v. Brown, 311 S.W.3d 422, 431-32 (Tenn.2010); State v. Ducker, 27 S.W.3d 889, 896 (Tenn.2000). … If that is the case, the verdicts are legally inconsistent and cannot withstand challenge”); Brown v.

    Cited 176 timesPublished
  • Earls v. Bennett

    137 Tenn. 174 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1916

    Justice Story in Ricard v. Williams, 7 Wheat., 106 , 5 L. Ed., 410 . As Lord MaNsuield said, in Eldridge v. … Brown v. Edson, 23 Vt., 435 . Reverse’ the decree of the chancellor, and remand the cause for further and accordant proceedings.

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  • Crockett v. Scott

    199 Tenn. 90 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 10, 1955

    Gray’s Rule Against Perpetuities, Sec. 214 (supra); Tiffany On Real Property, Sec. 180; Brown v. Brown, 86 Tenn. 277 , 6 S. W. 869 , 7 S. W. 640 ; 41 Am. Jur., p. 59 . … In the Hassell v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Blackwood Tire & Vulcanizing Co. v. Auto Storage Co.

    133 Tenn. 515 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1915

    In Southworth v. Isham, 5 N. Y. Super. … . *519 In Comins v.

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • McCauley v. Building & Saving Ass'n

    35 L.R.A. 244 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 14, 1896

    Code (M. & V.), § 1742. … Rep., 841 (and note), 873; Bank v. Cook, 46 Am. St. Rep., 200 ; Reeve v. Ladies' Building Association, 18 L. R.

    Cited 16 timesPublished

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