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  • Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Wade

    127 Tenn. 154 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1912

    Bear River, etc., Co., 35 Cal., 679 , injury, to plaintiff’s land by defendant’s careless management of his water ditch; Board of Commissioners of Porter County v. … Co. v. McCoy, 81 Ky., 403 , damages for personal injury; Sawyer v. Hannibal, etc., R. Co., 37 Mo., 240 , 90 Am.

    Cited 30 timesPublished
  • City of Memphis v. Enloe

    141 Tenn. 618 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1919

    State v. Railroad, 124 Tenn., 1 , 135 S. W., 773 ; Stratton v. Morris, 89 Tenn., 534 , 15 S. W., 87 , 12 L. R. A., 70; Railway v. Ellis, 165 U. S., 155 , 17 Sup. Ct., 255, 41 L. Ed., 666 ; Connolly v. … “One of the principal grounds of appeal is that the ordinance of the borough and the acceptance by the sewerage company of the provisions thereof constitute an inviolable contract between the parties which the Board of Public

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Pittman v. Upjohn Co.

    890 S.W.2d 425 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 28, 1994

    In Byrd v. … Pursuant to the authority of T.C.A § 63-10-102, the Board of Pharmacy of the State of Tennessee has promulgated certain rules and standards of practice.

    Disagreed with by Burroughs v. Magee, 2003 Tenn. LEXIS 1015 (2003)Cited 133 timesPublished
  • Street Railroad Co. v. Howard

    102 Tenn. 474 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 18, 1899

    See also Wilson v. Railroad Co., 144 Mass., 148 ; Whittaker v. Street Ry. Co., 51 N. Y., 295 ; Johnson v. Ice Co., 53 Mich., 322 ; Adams v. Railroad Co., 74 Mo., 553 ; Railroad Co. v. O'Brien, 119 U. … R. v. Ingram, 181 Ill., 659 ; Hearn v. Street Ry., 34 La., 160 ; State v. Foley, 31 Ia., 527 ; Commonwealth v. Hicks, 7 Allen, 573 ; Rascher v. Street Ry., 51 N. W. Rep., 463 (Mich.); Brooks v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Corporation of Knoxville v. Bird

    80 Tenn. 121 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1883

    This is- *126 entirely ' consistent with á proper agency properly exercised — it may have been by representing to the board the need for such extension, and showing the facts on which this' need rested — at any rate,' in … It has been stated by this court, Beasley v. Town of Columbia, 1 Hum. 240 , that an ordinance of a town may be held void for oppression or irregularity.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • State of Tennessee v. Lemaricus Devall Davidson

    509 S.W.3d 156 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 19, 2016

    (quoting State v. LaChance, 524 S.W.2d 933, 937 (Tenn. 1975), abrogated on other grounds by State v. Brown, 836 S.W.2d 530, 543 (Tenn. 1992)). … Brown v. Crown Equip. Corp., 181 S.W.3d 268, 277 (Tenn. 2005) (citing State v. Stevens, 78 S.W.3d 817, 833 (Tenn. 2002); Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael, 526 U.S. 137, 150 (1999)); State v.

    Cited 131 timesPublished
  • Johnson v. Johnson

    22 L.R.A. 179 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 16, 1893

    If at any time in the future there should not be as many as two of my descendants able and. willing to take charge of this trust, then it shall revert to a board, consisting of the elders of the several Presbyterian Churches … Reeves v. Reeves, 5 Lea, 644 ; Rhodes v.

    Cited 28 timesPublished
  • Miller v. Taylor

    53 Tenn. 465 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 1, 1871

    Jurisp., vol. 1, ss. 542, 543, 544, and case of Thompson v. Brown, 4 Johns’ Ch. R., 619. … Rodgers v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Memphis Grain Elevator Co. v. Memphis C.R. Co.

    85 Tenn. 52 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 8, 1887

    these subscriptions are made with the understanding that the Memphis Charleston Railroad Company will guaranty that the subscribers shall receive not less than eight per cent. dividends per annum on the stock paid in;" the board … In Davis v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Hudson v. King

    49 Tenn. 560 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 21, 1871

    Jur., § 755; Sneed v. Bradley, 4 Sneed, 301 . … Brown on Frauds, §§ 348, 371. *574 We hold that the memorandum of the sale of the land in this case is not sufficient under the statute of frauds, and that consequently the sale of the land on the 18th of February, 1862,

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Patti Zakour v. Ut Medical Group, Inc., & Scott Craig, M.D.

    Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 22, 2007

    Hernandez, 500 U.S. at 364; Hugueley, 185 S.W.3d at 369; Woodson v. Porter Brown Limestone Co., 916 S.W.2d 896, 906 (Tenn. 1996). B. … Brown v. Kelly, 973 F.2d 116, 121 (2d Cir. 1992) (citing United States v. Sherrills, 929 F.2d 393, 395 (8th Cir. 1991)).

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Miller v. Taylor

    53 Tenn. 465 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Nov 1, 1871

    Jurisp., vol. 1, ss. 542, 543, 544, and case of Thompson v. Brown, 4 Johns’ Ch. R., 619. … Rodgers v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • State v. Wilson

    70 Tenn. 204 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1879

    Read v. Bobb, 4 Yer., 66 . … Miller v. Conlee, 5 Sneed, 432 . It is obvious that this “ advantage” should be most sedulously secured in cases involving great constitutional questions.

    Cited 27 timesPublished
  • Shelby County v. Exposition Co.

    96 Tenn. 653 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 28, 1896

    Railroad Co. v. County Court, 1 Sneed, 667 ; McCallie v. Chattanooga, 3 Head, 318 ; Adams v. Railroad Co., 2 Cold., 645 . Kindred questions have been similarly decided in other States. … Norman v. The Kentucky Board, etc., 93 Ky., 537 (S. C., 18 L. R. A., 556).

    Cited 24 timesPublished
  • State v. Benson

    973 S.W.2d 202 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jun 1, 1998

    The officers seized a gray sweatshirt and brown cotton work gloves which were later identified as being worn by one of the men involved in the robbery. … In Vasquez v.

    Cited 39 timesPublished
  • South Central Bell Telephone Co. v. Celauro

    735 S.W.2d 228 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Aug 10, 1987

    The FCC, along with a federal-state joint board, decides what part of the local plant costs is from supplying interstate service and what part is essentially local. See NA.B.U.C. v. FCC, 737 F.2d 1095 (D.C.Cir. 1984). … N.A.R.U.C. v. FCC, 737 F.2d at 1109.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • General Oil Co. v. Crain

    117 Tenn. 82 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1906

    Williams v. … In State v.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • State v. Hinsley

    627 S.W.2d 351 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Feb 5, 1982

    Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction, 368 U.S. 278 , 82 S.Ct. 275 , 7 L.Ed.2d 285 (1961); United States v. Spector, 343 U.S. 169 , 72 S.Ct. 591 , 96 L.Ed. 863 . (1952). … In Rummel v.

    Cited 32 timesPublished
  • Dellinger v. State

    279 S.W.3d 282 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 22, 2009

    In the direct appeal of State v. … Moreover, in Fields v.

    Cited 703 timesPublished
  • Bellsouth Advertising & Publishing Corp. v. Tennessee Regulatory Authority

    79 S.W.3d 506 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jul 10, 2002

    This category of cases is typified by Abood v. Detroit Board of Education 10 and Keller v. … In Board of *521 Trustees of the State University of New York v.

    Cited 15 timesPublished

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