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  • City of Chattanooga v. Tennessee Electric Power, Co.

    172 Tenn. 524 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jan 18, 1938

    Humes v. Mayor of Knoxville, 20 Tenn. (1 Humph.), 403, 34 Am. Dec., 657 ; Mayor, etc., of Nashville v. Brown, 56 Tenn. (9 Heisk.), 1, 24 Am. Rep., 289 . … In Mayor, etc., of Nashville v. Brown, 56 Tenn. (9 Heist.), 1, 6, 24 Am. Rep., 289 , the above holding was approved.

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  • Management Services, Inc. v. Hellman

    40 Tenn. App. 127 · Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Aug 24, 1955

    Thereafter while they were standing on the concrete apron near the high diving board watching the divers, the decedent asked his father’s permission to move closer (south) to the low diving board where children his age were … In Brown v. Ellison, 1926, 12 Tenn. App. 27 , a judgment for $7500 was held not to he excessive for the death of a 12 year old active boy. In Highland Coal & Lumber Co. v. Cravens, 1928, 8 Tenn.

    Cited 40 timesPublished
  • Deaderick v. State

    122 Tenn. 222 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1909

    Brown and others, the employers of the plaintiff in error, had never had any actual possession. … State v. Mathes, 3 Lea, 37 ; Malone v. State, 11 Lea, 703 . The party in actual possession can recover in an action for trespass to land. Large v. Dennis, 5 Sneed, 597 ; Allen v. McCorkle, 3 Head, 182 ; Bailey v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • James W. Hunter v. Shirley C. Hunter

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Nov 30, 2000

    Brown v. Brown, 913 S.W.2d 163, 168 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1994). This must be done after consideration of the statutory factors set forth in T.C.A. § 36-4-121(c). Marital fault cannot be considered. … Brown, 913 S.W.2d at 168. The value to be placed on a marital asset is a question of fact. Kinard v. Kinard, 986 S.W.2d 220, 231 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1998).

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  • State of Tennessee v. Collin J. Johnson and Jason S. Porterfield

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · May 15, 2002

    See State v. Sheline, 955 S.W.2d 42, 43 (Tenn. 1997). … See Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284, 295-96, 93 S. Ct. 1038, 1046, 35 L. Ed. 2d 297 (1973); State v. Brown, 29 S.W.3d 427, 436 (Tenn. 2000).

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  • State of Tennessee v. Javon Jolarry Spivey

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Feb 7, 2020

    United States v. … In United States v.

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  • Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. City of Chattanooga

    172 Tenn. 505 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 27, 1937

    Wright v. Donaldson, 144 Tenn., 255 , 230 S. W., 605 . In Couch v. State, 140 Tenn., 156 , 203 S. … In State Board of Examiners v. Engineering *520 Co., 157 Tenn., 157, 162 , 7 S. W. (2d), 47 , the concluding clause of the caption of the act, Pub.

    Cited 82 timesPublished
  • State of Tennessee v. Patricia Smith

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Jun 1, 2015

    State v. Dorantes, 331 S.W.3d 370, 379 (Tenn. 2011); State v. Brown, 551 S.W.2d 329, 331 (Tenn. 1977). … State v. Bland, 958 S.W.2d 651, 659 (Tenn. 1997); State v. Pruett, 788 S.W.2d 559, 561 (Tenn. 1990).

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  • State of Tennessee v. Brice Cook

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Sep 4, 2013

    Brown had made to police. … Brown, 836 S.W.2d at 553.

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  • State Farm Life Insurance Co. v. Lawless

    586 S.W.2d 468 · Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Jul 3, 1979

    Co. v. Russell (1934) 18 Tenn.App. 622 , 80 S.W.2d 846 . … Co. v. King (1917) 137 Tenn. 685 , 195 S.W. 585 . This argument must fail because there is no evidence that sinus infection is a signal of brain cancer. Compare Lincoln *471 American Life Insurance Co. v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Hawkins v. State

    555 S.W.2d 876 · Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Apr 12, 1977

    Brown. If nothing else, Kerrie Lou Hawkins was clearly an accessory to the criminal acts of Waggoner. … See Graves v. State, 489 S.W.2d 74 (Tenn.Cr.App.1972). The photographs have probative value on an issue in dispute.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Richardson v. GlaxoSmithKline

    412 F. Supp. 2d 863 · District Court, W.D. Tennessee · Jan 31, 2006

    See Tolliver v. … See Wiley v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Beatty v. McGraw

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Dec 10, 1998

    McGraw and Brown assert that Mr. … McGraw and Brown assert that Mr.

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  • People First Auto Sales, LLC v. City of Memphis, Tennessee

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Feb 11, 2025

    Malcolm Brown Futhey, III, and Harley Marie Chapman, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellants, People First Auto Sales, LLC, and Octopus Group, Inc. Allan Jerome Wade and Brandy S. … See Hammond v. Harvey, 410 S.W.3d 306, 310 (Tenn. 2013) (stating that general rules of statutory construction applied to a county board’s administrative rules).

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  • City of Knoxville v. The Clinch Locust Garage

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Dec 11, 2001

    Wolfe received annual rent of $6,000.00 from Brown, Brown & West, and Brown, Brown & West received annual rent of $21,600.00 from its subtenant. … Clinch Locust and Brown rely upon the case of State ex rel. Dept. of Transportation v. Gee, 565 S.W.2d 498 (Tenn.Ct.

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  • David Kyle Gilley v. State of Tennessee

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Oct 31, 2012

    Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150, 154 (1972); see also Johnson v. State, 38 S.W.3d 52, 57 (Tenn. 2001). … Mary Hunter Brown.

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  • Kim Hardy v. Tournament Players Club at Southwind, Inc. d/b/a "TPC Southwind"

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Jul 2, 2015

    Fortune v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of America, 360 S.W.3d 390, 398 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2010); Brown v. Knox Cnty., 39 S.W.3d 585, 589 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2000) (citing see Allstate Ins. Co. v. … We applied the Cort v. Ash test in Owens, and the Tennessee Supreme Court specifically applied that test in Brown.

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  • James v. Tennessee Valley Authority

    538 F. Supp. 704 · District Court, E.D. Tennessee · Apr 22, 1982

    This question was raised in Boles v. … Image of Greater San Antonio v. Brown, 570 F.2d 517, 522 (5th Cir. 1978); Breckinridge v. Rumsfeld, 537 F.2d 864 (6th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 1061 , 97 S.Ct. 785 , 50 L.Ed.2d 777 (1977).

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • In Re Pacer International, Inc.

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Jun 30, 2017

    Brown, Nashville, Tennessee, and James P. Smith III and John E. Schreiber, New York, New York, for the appellees, Pacer International, Inc., Daniel W. Avramovich, Dennis A. Chantland, J. Douglass Coates, P. … Tennessee courts are loathe “to substitute their judgment for that of a corporation’s board of directors.” Lewis ex rel. Sav. Bank & Trust Co. v. Boyd, 838 S.W.2d 215, 220 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1992).

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  • Edwards v. Wilson County Government

    District Court, M.D. Tennessee · Jul 8, 2025

    & Brown Insurance Brokers (“Brown & Brown”), William Brown (“Brown”) and Fresh Co. … & Brown that provided to them false insurance certificates.

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