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  • Buchanan v. Brown and Craighead

    3 Tenn. 185 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jul 6, 1812

    And if at any subsequent period a title better than that of Brown’s should make its appearance, by virtue of which the complainant or his heirs should be deprived of the enjoyment of this land, that then Brown should be compelled … But as this contract grew out of a transaction with the defendant Craig-head, who received the consideration, acted as the agent of Brown, and by whose information, it is fair,to suppose, Brown was governed, it seems to the

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  • Mayor of Nashville v. Brown

    56 Tenn. 1 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1871

    In Humes v. … In the case of Painter v.

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  • Mayor of Nashville v. Brown

    56 Tenn. 1 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1871

    In Humes v. … In the case of Painter v.

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  • State Ex Rel. Myers v. Brown

    209 Tenn. 141 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 8, 1961

    In the case of Grant v. … In the case of George v.

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  • Brown v. John Martin Construction Co.

    642 S.W.2d 145 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 15, 1982

    The custodian of the Second Injury Fund raised this question in Stovall v. General Shoe Corp., supra, and in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company v. Friar, supra. … The employer relies on Employers-Commercial Union Companies v. Taylor, 531 S.W.2d 104 (Tenn.1975), Cleveland-Tennessee Enamel Company v. Eaton, 517 S.W.2d 10 (Tenn.1974), and Gluck Brothers, Inc. v.

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  • State ex rel. Brown v. Howell

    134 Tenn. 93 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1915

    These are Conn v. Richmond, 17 Cal. App., 705 , 121 *101 Pac., 714, 719 , and Robinson v. Anderson, 26 Cal. App., 644 , 147 Pac., 1182 . … Leavenworth v. Wilson, 69 Kan., 74 , 76 Pac., 400 , 2 Ann. Cas., 367. The other Kansas case is Hay et al. v. Dorn (1914), 93 Kan., 392, 397 , 144 Pac., 235 -237.

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  • State ex rel. Webb v. Brown

    132 Tenn. 685 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1915

    Lim., 93; Webb v. Garter, 129 Tenn., 182, 239 , 165 S. W., 426 . … Rucher v. Supervisor, 7 W. Va., 661 ; Purcell v. Parks, 82 Ill., 346 ; State v. *690 McDowell, 19 Neb., 442 , 27 N. W., 433 ; Louisville v. Wilson, 99 Ky., 598 , 36 S. W., 944 .

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  • State Ex Rel. Brown v. McCanless

    184 Tenn. 83 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 29, 1946

    Nixon v. McCanless, 176 Tenn. 352, 354 , 141 S. … McCanless v. State ex rel. Hamm, 181 Tenn. 308, 314 , 181 S. W. (2d) 154 , 153 A. L. R. 832; McCanless, Com’r v. Klein, 182 Tenn. 631, 639 , 188 S.

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  • Cheryl Brown Giggers v. Memphis Housing Authority

    277 S.W.3d 359 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 3, 2009

    Brown, Jr., and Angela G. … Hunter v. Brown, 955 S.W.2d 49, 50-51 (Tenn.1997); Cowden v. Sovran Bank/Cent. S., 816 S.W.2d 741, 744 (Tenn.1991).

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  • Porter Brown Limestone Co. v. Olson

    648 S.W.2d 242 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 27, 1982

    The estoppel issue is controlled by this Court’s opinion in Memphis Shopper’s News, Inc. v. Woods, 584 S.W.2d 196 (Tenn.1979) and the numerous prior decisions cited at page 200 therein.

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  • Board of Education of Viola Normal School v. Board of Education

    160 Tenn. 351 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 1, 1930

    Canton Cotton Mills v. Overall Co., 149 Tenn., 29 ; State ex rel. v. Vanderbilt University, 129 Tenn., 279 . … In explanation of the text the author quotes, in a note, from Omaha Water Co. v. Omaha, 147 Fed., 1, 5 , 77 C. C. A., 267 , 12 L. R. A. (N. S.), 736 (App. Dism., 207 U.

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  • Tomlinson v. Board of Equalization

    6 L.R.A. 207 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 12, 1889

    Where no right of appeal is given by the statute in express words or by necessary implication, an appeal will not lie, and it was therefore not error in the Board to refuse the appeal prayed for. Wade v. … Wade v.

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  • Quinton v. Board of Claims

    165 Tenn. 201 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 26, 1932

    Walters v. State, 2 Chan. Cas., 69. And the right to sue the State cannot exist without affirmative authority from the legislature. Insurance Co. v. Craig, 106 Tenn., 621 ; State v. Odom, 93 Tenn., 446 ; State v. … Sneed, 9 Baxt., 472 ; Williams v. Register, Cooke, 214 .

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  • McKee v. Board of Elections

    173 Tenn. 269 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 13, 1938

    In Staples v. Brown, 113 Tenn., 639 , 85 S. … Anderson v. Memphis, 167 Tenn., 648 , 72 S. W. (2d), 1059 ; Prosterman v. Board of Dental Examiners, 168 Tenn., 16 , 73 S. W. (2d), 687 .

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  • Board of Education v. Baker

    124 Tenn. 39 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1910

    Thereupon, the complainants, who are the county board of education for Humphreys county, and the county superintendent of public instruction, who is ex officio secretary of the county board uf education, filed this bill to … Real Prop., vol. 3, pp. 370, 371; Id., vol. 2, pp. 13-15; Rice v. Boston & W. R. R., 12 Allen (Mass.), 141.

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  • Edmondson v. Board of Education

    108 Tenn. 557 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 5, 1902

    Governor v. McEwen, 5 Hum., 240 . Not only is this true, but the Board depends largely for the maintenance of its schools upon sources of income found outside the limits of the city of Memphis. … Railroad Co., 2 Cold., 645 ), and in Shelby County v.

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  • Rowe v. Board of Education

    938 S.W.2d 351 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 4, 1996

    Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 569-70 , 92 S.Ct. 2701, 2705 , 33 L.Ed.2d 548 (1972). … Zorzi v.County of Putnam, 30 F.3d 885, 894-95 (7th Cir.1994); McKinney v. Pate, 20 F.3d 1550, 1560 (11th Cir.1994); Sutton v. Cleveland Board of Education, 958 F.2d 1339, 1350-51 (6th Cir.1992); Reinhart v.

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  • Byrd v. Hall

    847 S.W.2d 208 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 19, 1993

    See Hamrick v. … Knoxville Traction Co. v. Brown, 115 Tenn. 323, 331 , 89 S.W. 319 , 321 (1905); Rollins v. Winn Dixie, 780 S.W.2d 765, 767 (Tenn.App.1989); Schwarzer, 139 F.R.D. at 476.

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  • State Ex Rel. Brown v. Polk County

    165 Tenn. 196 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 26, 1932

    L., 579; Board of Viola v. Board of Warren County, 160 Tenn., 351 . … See State v.

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  • Hughes v. Board of Commissioners

    204 Tenn. 298 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 12, 1958

    Reetz v. [People of State of] Michigan, 188 U.S. 505 , 23 S.Ct. 390 , 47 L.Ed. 563 .” … As authority for this proposition see our case of Saunders v. Swann, 155 Tenn. 310 , 292 S.W. 458 .

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