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  • State v. Brown

    618 S.W.2d 325 · Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Mar 19, 1981

    Gallimore v. State, 173 Tenn. 178 , 116 S.W.2d 1001 (1988); Owens v. State, 217 Tenn. 544 , 399 S.W.2d 507 (1965); Anderson v. State, 512 S.W.2d 665 (Tenn.Cr.App.1974). … State v. Little, 560 S.W.2d 403 (Tenn.1978).

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Ross v. Brown

    2 Tenn. 210 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Aug 6, 1813

    After the first entry of Brown for 456 acres, and previously to the second for 146 acres, Ross enters the same land, and upon a survey for Brown for the whole 602 acres, being the whole of his 5,000 acre tract, which was … Agreeably to act of assembly, Brown the caveatee must pay the cost, the caveator having succeeded in recovering part of the land caveated.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Lyon v. Brown

    65 Tenn. 64 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1873

    Brown a party plaintiff. The defendant then moved the court to dismiss the suit, because the jury had been sworn to try the issue between Clinton A. Brown and wife, plaintiffs, and A. L. … In the case of Eakin v. Burger, 1 Sneed, 424 , this court, speaking of the act of 1852, ch. 152, carried into the Code as sec. 2869, say: “ This is a very strong and universal statute of jeofails.

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  • Brown v. Vaughn

    203 Tenn. 220 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Dec 6, 1957

    This case is a sequel to the case of Brown v. Thurman, decided by this Court on March 8, 1957, and reported in 201 Tenn. 474 , 300 S.W.2d 883 . … Brown and Mrs. Charles Vaughn were opposing candidates in the election of August 2, 1956, for the office of Superintendent of Schools for Clay County. On *223 August 1, 1956, the bill in Brown v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • State v. Brown

    50 Tenn. 1 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 21, 1870

    Ju'lge Whyte, in delivering the opinion of this court, in the case State v. … State v. Wimberly, 3 McCord, 190 , cited in 1 Wat. Arch. Cr. Pl., 304, n. These views are further supported by the authorities cited in the same book, pp. 262, 300.

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  • Brown v. Newman

    224 Tenn. 297 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 4, 1970

    Brown and Jake "West, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs, each for $150,000.00 damages for alleged libelous matter published by the defendants. … Tennessean Newspapers, Inc., supra; Fry v. McCord (1895), 95 Tenn. 678 , 33 S.W. 568 ; Bank v. Bowdre Bros. (1893), 92 Tenn. 723 , 23 S.W. 131 ; and in the absence thereof the suit must be dismissed.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Howell v. Brown

    7 Tenn. App. 380 · Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Jan 7, 1928

    See, Simmons v. Leonard, 91 Tenn., 183 , 30 Am. St. *383 Rep., 875; Long v. Mickler, 133 Tenn., 51 , 179 S. W., 477 ; Tate v. Lawrence, 58 Tenn., 503 . … Rep., 591 ; Etchison v. Etchison, 53 Md. 348, 357 ; Cheatham v. Hatcher (Va.), 30 Gratt., 56 , 32 Am. Rep., 650 ; Lane v. Lane, 114 Am. St. Rep., 216 , notes.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • State v. Brown

    638 S.W.2d 436 · Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Jun 7, 1982

    The United States Supreme Court in Aguilar v. … In Woods v.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Wallace

    15 Tenn. App. 187 · Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Jul 9, 1932

    Brown who were partners and doing business under the trade name of Pryor Brown Transfer Company, and Butler Julian, who, on November 16, 1929, was the operator of a taxicab, owned by the other two defendants. … In the ease of Padgett v. Brangan, Ky., 15 S.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Mills v. Brown (In Re Brown)

    182 B.R. 778 · United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Tennessee · Jun 2, 1995

    Brown Jr., the Chapter 7 trustee (“Trustee”). … Wheless, 74 Tenn. 312, 322 (Tenn.1880); Eaves v. Gillespie, 31 Tenn. 128, 132 (Tenn.1851); Adrian v. Brown, 29 Tenn.App. 236 , 196 S.W.2d 118, 121 (1946).

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Michael Timothy Brown v. Janine Biache Brown

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Jun 28, 2013

    IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE April 10, 2013 Session MICHAEL TIMOTHY BROWN v. … Brown v. Brown, 913 S.W.2d 163, 169 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1994). In Gonsewski v.

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  • Brown v. Harris

    180 Tenn. 81 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 29, 1943

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Grayson

    160 Tenn. 374 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 1, 1930

    Beard v. Bricker, 32 Tenn., 50 ; Sullivan v. Ivey, 34 Tenn., 487 . In forcible entry and detainer the title cannot he inquired into in an action at law. Shultz v. Elliott, 30 Tenn., 186 ; William Redmond v. … Thomas Bowles, 37 Tenn., 551 ; Phillips v. Sampson, 39 Tenn., 429 ; Beaty v. Jones, 41 Tenn., 487 ; Stackley v. Cissna, 119 Tenn., 150 . The rule is different in equity. William Redmond v. Thomas Bowles, supra.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Hamlett

    76 Tenn. 732 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1882

    Legislative acts fall within the rule, and it has been well said, that a thing which is *736 in the letter of a statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the law makers: State v. … Co., 2 Sneed, 88 ; Perkins v. Gibbs, 1 Baxt., 175 ; Gold v. Fite, 2 Baxt., 249 .

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Ellison

    12 Tenn. App. 27 · Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Jul 24, 1926

    In the case of Railroad v. … In Collins v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Hunt

    59 Tenn. 404 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 15, 1873

    Upon careful reflection, however, upon this case, we do not think it can be distinguished in principle from the case of Booker v. Booker, 5 Hum., 507 . The clause of the will thus construed was as follows. … For this the court cited Thompson v. McKissick, 3 Hum., 631 ; Davis v. Richardson, 10 Yer., 290 ; Smith v. Bell, Mar. & Yer., 302,— the well known and familiar cases in our State.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Hackett v. Brown

    49 Tenn. 264 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 4, 1871

    See Wilson v. Smith, 5 Yer., 379 ; Turbeville v. Ryan, 1 Hum., 113 . See, also, 5 Yer., 453 ; 2 Swan, 237 ; 1 Head, 209 ; Ib., 610; 2 Head, 565 . … In Bush v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Mason Ex Rel. Mason v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville

    189 S.W.3d 217 · Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Sep 30, 2005

    King by King v. Kartanson, 720 S.W.2d 65, 68 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1986); Roberts v. Robertson County Board of Education, 692 S.W.2d 863, 872 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1985); Cadorette v. … Kindred v. Board of Education of Memphis City Schools, 946 S.W.2d 47 (Tenn. Ct.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Brown v. State

    1 Tenn. Crim. App. 739 · Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Oct 22, 1969

    Bass v. State, 191 Tenn. 259 , 231 S.W.2d 707 ; Moorehead v. State, 219 Tenn. 271 , 409 S.W.2d 357 . … Gulley v. State, 219 Tenn. 114 , 407 S.W.2d 186 ; Bacon v. State, 215 Tenn. 268 , 385 S.W.2d 107 ; McBee v. State, 213 Tenn. 15 , 372 S.W.2d 173 ; Brown v. State, Tenn. Crim.App., 441 S.W.2d 485 .

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Brown Ex Rel. Brown v. Wal-Mart Discount Cities

    12 S.W.3d 785 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 31, 2000

    At trial, Mitchell Brown’s mother, Lisa Brown, testified that she entered the vestibule with her two young children and walked toward the pay telephone to make a call to her husband. … George v.

    Cited 42 timesPublished

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