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  • Howell v. Thompson

    95 Tenn. 396 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 10, 1895

    Greene v. Starnes, 1 Heis., 582; Saylors v. Saylors, 3 Heis., 533; O’Neal v. Smith, 10 Lea, 340 ; McBee v. Bearden, 7 Lea, 733 ; Howell v. Cobb, 2 Cold., 104 ; Armstrong v. Croft, 3 Lea, 191 ; Spencer v. … Marshall v. Hudson, 9 Yer., 57 ; Maxey v. Carter, 10 Yer., 521 ; Cocke v. Hoffman, 5 Lea, 109 ; Reeves v. Pulliam, 7 Bax., 120 ; Jamison v. Lillard, 12 Lea, 690 ; Gibson v. Jones, 13 Lea, 684 ; Glass v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Fleming v. City of Memphis

    126 Tenn. 331 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1912

    Memphis v. Lasser, 9 Humph., 757 ; Nashville v. Brown, 9 Heisk., 1 , 24 Am. Rep., 289 ; Niblett v. Nashville, 12 Heisk., 684 , 27 Am. Rep., 755 . In Knoxville v. … Even in Williams v.

    Cited 25 timesPublished
  • Tennessee Cent. Ry. Co. v. Pharr

    183 Tenn. 658 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 13, 1946

    and commissions, for the reason that it was suspended by Section 10618, as held by us in Woodroof v. … State v. Public Service Commission of Missouri, 330 Mo. 729 , 51 S. W. (2d) 73, 76 ; Board of Levee Com’rs v. Johnson, 178 Ky. 287 , 199 S. W. 8, 12 , L. R. A. 1918E, 202.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Barnum v. Le Master

    110 Tenn. 638 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1903

    In Templeton v. Brown, 86 Tenn., 55 , 5 S. … Nelson v. Trigg, 2 Tenn. Cas., 645 ; Spurlock v. Brown, 91 Tenn., 241, 257 , 18 S. W., 868 .

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Keen v. Allison

    166 Tenn. 218 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 20, 1933

    Mitchell v. Usilton, 146 Tenn., 419 ; City of Nashville v. Latham, 160 Tenn., 581 ; American Mutual Liability Co. v. Otis Elevator Co., 160 Tenn., 248 ; McCreary v. Nashville C. & St. L. Ry., 161 Tenn., 691 ; Revell v. … I.), 146 Atl., 484 , and Kelly v. North British R. Co. (1915), 53 Scot. L. R., 53, As observed in American Mutual Liability Co. v.

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • Rodgers v. Rodgers

    53 Tenn. 489 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 1, 1871

    Brown, 7 John. C. R., 222. … Jarman, vol. 1, p. 160, and approved by this court in Brown v.

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  • Sweeton v. Tennessee Consol. Coal Co.

    179 Tenn. 216 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 2, 1942

    Kinnard v. Tennessee Chem. Co., 157 Tenn., 206 , 7 S. W. (2d), 807 . Actual dependency for support is the test. See Wilmoth v. Phoenix Utility Co., 168 Tenn., 95, 97 , 75 S. W. (2d), 48 . … What this young man had heretofore contributed had been little, if anything, more than his reasonable board and other expenses.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Day v. Sharp

    128 Tenn. 340 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1913

    It was held in Lewis v. … State v. Rose, supra; United States v. Hartwell, 6 Wall., 385, 393 , 18 L. Ed, 830, 832; People v. Duane, 121 N. Y., 367, 375 , 24 N. E., 845 .

    Cited 9 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.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • McClain v. Henry I. Siegel Co.

    834 S.W.2d 295 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jul 6, 1992

    date that the judgment or decree is entered at an annual rate of interest five (5) *296 percentage points above the average prime loan rate for the most recent week for which such an average rate has been published by the board … See, e.g., Fowler v.

    Cited 29 timesPublished
  • Washington v. Robertson County

    29 S.W.3d 466 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 2, 2000

    In Carr v. … The Supreme Court has recently reaffirmed this holding in Board of County Comm’r v. Brown, 520 U.S. 397 , 117 S.Ct. 1382 , 137 L.Ed.2d 626 (1997).

    Cited 38 timesPublished
  • Ford v. State

    184 Tenn. 443 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 1, 1945

    Proof of a particular threat is made to his' wife that he would kill her if she “turned him up” to the Draft Board, and it is shown that she nevertheless did report to the Board that he was not supporting her or the children … Hays v. State, 159 Tenn. 388 , 19 S. W. (2d) 313 ; Williams v. State, 164 Tenn. 562 , at page 570, 51 S. W. (2d) 482 ; Rowe v. State, 164 Tenn. 571 , at page 579, 51 S. W. (2d) 505 ; Hutchins v.

    Cited 41 timesPublished
  • Smith v. Nashville

    7 L.R.A. 469 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 1, 1890

    Town of West Hartford v. The Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Hartford, 44 Conn., 361 . … The strongest adverse case is that of City of Louisville v. Commonwealth, 1 Duvall, 295.

    Cited 23 timesPublished
  • Keyt v. Keyt

    244 S.W.3d 321 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 19, 2007

    Flannary, 121 S.W.3d at 650 ; Brown v. Brown, 913 S.W.2d 163, 166 (Tenn.Ct.App.1994). … McFarland v. McFarland, No. M2005-01260-COA-R3-CV, 2007 WL 2254576 , at *6 (Tenn.Ct.App. Aug.6, 2007). First, the contributions must be “real and significant.” Id.; Brown, 913 S.W.2d at 167 .

    Cited 179 timesPublished
  • Weakley v. Barrow

    137 Tenn. 224 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1916

    Johns v. Montgomery, 265 Ill., 21 , 106 N. E., 497 , L. R. A., 1916B, 1073, Ann. Cas., 1916A, 996, following Curtiss v. Brown, 29 Ill., 201 ; Lenow v. Arrington, 111 Tenn., 720 , 69 S. W., 314 ; Ricardi v. … In Burroughs v.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Seeber v. Watlington

    192 Tenn. 521 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 16, 1951

    Seeber, in his official capacity as County Judge for Anderson County, Tennessee, against the defendants as members of the Anderson County Board of Commissioners of Elections. … This Court in State v. True, 116 Tenn. 294 , 95 S.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • State Ex Rel. Gillard v. Cook

    528 S.W.2d 545 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 29, 1975

    Brewer, 408 U.S. 471 , 92 S.Ct. 2593 , 33 L.Ed.2d 484 (1972) and Gagnon v. Scarpelli, 411 U.S. 778 , 93 S.Ct. 1756 , 36 L.Ed.2d 656 (1973). … Therefore, Petitioner strongly argues that the holding of Mempa v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Oliver v. Nashville

    106 Tenn. 273 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 19, 1901

    State v. Barksdale, 5 Hum., *278 154 ; Nashville v. Brown, 9 Heis., 2; Niblett v. Nashville, 12 Heis., 684; Poole v. … Jones v. Telephone Co., 17 Pick., 443 .

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Shockley v. Morristown Produce & Ice Co.

    158 Tenn. 148 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 8, 1928

    Chemical Co. v. … White v. Bates, 234 Ill., 276 ; Hendricks v. Calloway, 211 Mo. 536 .

    Cited 40 timesPublished
  • State v. Simmons

    199 Tenn. 479 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 3, 1956

    Lea v. Brown, 166 Tenn. 669, 692, 693 , 64 S. W. (2d) 841, 848 , 91 A. L. R. 1246, is appropriate: • “A-party- may waive any provision of a contract-statute, or constitution intendéd for his benefit. … Lea v. Brown, supra., ... .. The trial judge’s second grqund for holding the Act invalid was that the Act “was not the law of the.land” within the meaning of the Constitution.

    Cited 20 timesPublished

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