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  • Hanover Insurance Company v. Haney

    221 Tenn. 148 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 8, 1968

    Tobacco Board of Trade (warehousemen) and representatives of the tobacco companies, several weeks prior to the actual closing date, and after a survey of the market is made to determine how much unsold tobacco is in the area … Marron v. Scarbrough, 44 Tenn.App. 414 , 314 S.W.2d 165 .”

    Cited 66 timesPublished
  • Sutton v. State

    33 L.R.A. 589 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 11, 1896

    Vanzant v. Waddel, 2 Yer., 259 ; Wally v. Kennedy, Ib., 555; Bank v. Cooper, Ib., 600; Jones v. Perry, 10 Yer., 71 ; Sheppard v. Johnson, 2 Hum., 296 ; Budd v. The State, 3 Hum., 483 ; Mayor v. … Dearmon, 2 Sneed, 103 ; Brown v. Haywood, 4 Heis., 357; State v. Burnett, 6 Heis., 186; State v. Rauscher, 1 Lea, 97 ; Davis v. The State, 3 Lea, 379 ; Maney v. The State, 6 Lea, 221 ; Hatcher v.

    Cited 39 timesPublished
  • Continental Bankers Life Insurance Co. of the South v. Bank of Alamo

    578 S.W.2d 625 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 12, 1979

    See, e. g., Fisser v. International Bank, 282 F.2d 231 (2d Cir. 1960); Majestic Co. v. Orpheum Circuit, Inc., 21 F.2d 720 (8th Cir. 1927); Brown v. Margrande Compania Naviera S. … Ass’n v.

    Cited 79 timesPublished
  • Biggs v. Beeler

    180 Tenn. 198 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jul 3, 1943

    Query: If this is all that was intended, then, since the Legislature has the inherent power to tax (Vertrees v. State Board, 141 Tenn., 645 , at page 658, 214 S. … For example, in Ms able opinion in the leading and carefully considered case of Vertrees v. State Board of Elections, 141 Tenn., at page 660 , 214 S. W., at page 741, Mr.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Baptist Hospital v. City of Nashville

    156 Tenn. 589 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1928

    The corporation is controlled by a Board of Directors, chosen by the Tennessee Baptist Convention. … Church, South, v. Hinton, 92 Tenn., 188 , and previous decisions referred to therein. It can hardly be urged at this period in our development that such an institution is not a charity.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Whitehaven Utility District of Shelby County v. Ramsay

    215 Tenn. 435 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 11, 1964

    State v. McPhail, 156 Tenn. 459 , 2 S.W.2d 413 (1927); Samuel v. King, 158 Tenn. 546 , 14 S.W.2d 963 (1928); Robertson v. Davis, 169 Tenn. 659 , 90 S.W.2d 746 (1936); Bernard v. … In Consolidated Gray-Fordtown-Colonial Heights Utility District v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Mannery v. WAL-MART DISTRIBUTION CENTER

    69 S.W.3d 193 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 1, 2002

    Townsend v. State, 826 S.W.2d 434, 437 (Tenn.1992); Humphrey v. David Witherspoon, Inc., 734 S.W.2d 315, 315 (Tenn.1987). … Id.; Cook v. Great West Casualty Co., 779 S.W.2d 365, 366-67 (Tenn.1989); F.H. Lawson Co. v. Rambo, 225 Tenn. 217 , 465 S.W.2d 732, 735 (1971); Matthews v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Mendolia v. State

    192 Tenn. 656 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jul 27, 1951

    Brown v. State, 186 Tenn. 378 , 210 S. W. (2d) 670 . … In Glasgow v.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Pruitt v. Lambert

    201 Tenn. 291 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 8, 1957

    Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co., 336 U.S. 490 , 69 S.Ct. 684 , 93 L.Ed. 834 ; International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Hanke, 339 U.S. 470 , 70 S.Ct. 773 ; Building Service Emp. Intern. Union v. … In Watson Co. v.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Black v. Corder

    217 Tenn. 613 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 18, 1966

    Rose & Co. v. Snyder, 185 Tenn. 499 , 206 S.W.2d 897 (1947); Mason-Dixon Lines v. Lett, 201 Tenn. 171 , 297 S.W.2d 93 (1956). … In Snavely v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Cumberland Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. United Electric Railway Co.

    93 Tenn. 492 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 11, 1894

    Co. v. Baker, L. … See, also, Gay v. Knoxville, 85 Tenn., 92 ; Street Ry. Co. v. Doyle, 88 Tenn., 747 ; Myers v. St. Louis, 82 Mo., 378 ; Abendarth v. Manhattan Ry. (N. Y.), 19 Am. St. Rep., 461 .

    Cited 25 timesPublished
  • Madison v. Ducktown Sulphur, Copper & Iron Co.

    113 Tenn. 331 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1904

    Laches and neglect are always discountenanced, and therefore from the beginning of this jurisdiction there was always a limitation to suits in this court.” 3 Brown, Ch. Rep., 640, note. … Banbury Board of Health, L. R., 1 Eq., 47, 51; Goodson v. Richardson, 9 L. R., Ch., 223, 224; Robinson v. Baugh, 31 Mich., 291 ; Susquehanna Fertilizer Co. v. Malone, 73 Md., 268, 282 , 20 Atl., 900 , 9 L. R.

    Cited 33 timesPublished
  • Mayor of Nashville v. Knight

    80 Tenn. 700 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1883

    In the case of Chandler v. … The complainant is entitled to hold all of the parties on both bonds liable for the recovery: Odom v. Owen, 2 Baxt., 446 ; McGlothlin v. Wyatt, 1 Lea, 717 .

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  • Matill v. City of Chattanooga

    175 Tenn. 65 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 21, 1939

    In State v. Railroad Co., 124 Tenn., 1 , 135 S. W., 773 , 775, Ann. … The latter Ordinance creates a Board of Electrical Examiners for Chattanooga and provides for the licensing of persons and firms “engaged in the business of electrical contracting and for the licensing of electricians and

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Searle v. Juvenile Court for Williamson County

    188 S.W.3d 547 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 13, 2006

    Lea v. … See South Carolina v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Chattanooga v. Norman

    92 Tenn. 73 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 11, 1892

    Knoxville v. King, 7 Lea, 441 . There is no doubt, therefore, that had the ordinance “covered the whole city it would have' been valid. … XV1IL, pages 747, 748, and cases cited; Railroad Co. v. Richmond, 96 U. S., 521 (Lawyers’ Co-op.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Bird Bros. v. Southern Surety Co.

    139 Tenn. 11 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1917

    Co. v. Falls, 92 Tenn., 607 , 22 S. W., 856 . … Stone Co. v. Board of Publication, 91 Tenn., 200 , 18 S. W., 406 ; Bassett v. Bertorelli, 92 Tenn., 548 , 22 S. W., 423 ; Reeves v. Henderson, 90 Tenn., 522 , 18 S. W., 242 ; Cole Mfg. Co. v. Falls, supra.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Cook v. State

    170 Tenn. 245 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 23, 1936

    The plaintiff in error, a young man, came to Jackson on March 23, 1935, and applied for board with Mrs. Lanier and was taken in by her. … In Anderson v.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Hutton v. Campbell

    78 Tenn. 170 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1882

    Ridley, 2 Yer., 63 ; Love v. Smith, 4 Yer., 117 ; McBee v. State, Meigs, 133; Pratt v. Phillips, 1 Sneed, 543 . … Cas., 271 ; Browning v. Har- *174 ford, 5 Denio, 586 ; Shannon v. McMullin, 25 Gratt., 211 .

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Louisville, Nashville & Great Southern R. R. v. Harris

    77 Tenn. 180 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1882

    : Hibbard v. … Y., 455 ; State v. Campbell, 32 N. J. L., 309; Fulton v. Grand Trunk R. Co., 17 U. C., 428. The strict rule thus laid down ought, perhaps, to be *187 confined to willful violations of contract upon proper demand.

    Cited 0 timesPublished

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