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  • Phillips, Michael v. Western Express, Inc.

    2024 TN WC App. 31 · Tennessee Workers' Compensation Appeals Board · Aug 30, 2024

    Webb v. Sherrell, No. E2013-02724-COA-R3-CV, 2015 Tenn. App. LEXIS 645, at *5 (Tenn. Ct. App. Aug. 12, 2015). See also Sneed v. Bd. of Prof’l Responsibility of the Sup. … Bradshaw v. Old Republic Ins.

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  • Galbreath v. Nolan

    58 Tenn. App. 260 · Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Oct 27, 1967

    This is an appeal by the members of the Davidson County Democratic Primary Election Board, hereafter referred to as defendants, from a decree of the chancellor invalidating certain alleged actions of the Board and awarding … Such was the procedure followed in the case of Ledgerwood v. Pitts, 122 Tenn. 570 , 125 S.W. 1036 , cited in briefs of both appellants and ap-pellees.

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  • Trafford v. Wilkinson

    3 Tenn. Ch. R. 449 · Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Oct 15, 1877

    Cl ark v. Clark, 3 Hayw. 23 ; Thurman v. Shelton, 10 Yerg. 385 ; Brown v. Bibb, 2 Coldw. 439 ; Allen v. Simons, 1 Curt. 122; Jenkins v. Freyer, 4 Paige, 47 ; Woodin v. Bagley, 13 Wend. 453 ; Bradford v. … “The rule,” says our Supreme Court in Brown v.

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  • State of Tennessee v. Ernest Cunningham, Jr.

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Jun 2, 2006

    State v. Grace, 493 S.W.2d 474, 476 (Tenn. 1973). … State v. Brown, 823 S.W.2d 576, 579 (Tenn. Crim. App. 1991). The defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to prove either his facilitation of the sale or possession of cocaine.

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  • STATE OF TENNESSEE v. KENYON DEMARIO REYNOLDS

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Jan 30, 2026

    State v. Brown, 479 S.W.3d 200, 208-09 (Tenn. 2015). An illegal sentence is “one that is not authorized by the applicable statutes or that directly contravenes an applicable statute.” Tenn. R. Crim. P. 36.1(a)(2). … P. 36; Brown, 479 S.W.3d at 213.

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  • Jones v. State ex rel. Juvenile Court

    139 Tenn. 547 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1918

    We have explained in State of Tennessee ex rel. v. Verbal Bockman, 139 Tenn, 422, 201 S. W., 741 , opinion just filed, that we inadvertently took jurisdiction in Childress v. … It is statutory certio-rari which will issue in this case, to the end that the case may be tried again upon its merits in the circuit court (Staples v. Brown, 113 Tenn., 641 , 85 S.

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  • James C. Tomlinson and Charles F. McKelvey v. Edna J. Kelley and Jeanette M. Coke

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Nov 7, 1997

    McKelvey on the Board. Mses. … See Press, Inc. v. Verran, 569 S.W.2d 435, 441 (Tenn. 1978). The members of Berry Hill’s Board of Commissioners are clearly public figures.

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  • Mayor of Memphis v. Halsey

    59 Tenn. 210 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1873

    This view was repeated in the case of The State v. The Bank of East Tennessee, 5 Sneed, 573 , and again in Ward v. … The case of The State v. E. F. Hall, 3 Col., 256 , was decided upon the same principle.

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  • State v. Rutherford

    876 S.W.2d 118 · Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · Sep 16, 1993

    Wilson v. State, 574 S.W.2d 52, 55 (Tenn.Crim.App.1978). He also claims the instruction violates T.C.A. § 40-18-110. … See State v. Brown, 836 S.W.2d 530, 543 (Tenn.1992) citing Witt v. State, 46 Tenn. 5, 8 (1868). 1 The defendant actively sought out a knife and chased his brother from corner to corner in the trailer.

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  • Abney v. Abney

    222 Tenn. 160 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Oct 28, 1968

    Lanier v. Lanier, 52 Tenn. 462 (1871). We think the paramount intent of the legislature in enacting this 1963 amendment to this Code section can be found in statements made by Chief Justice Creen in Lingner v. … Cureton v. Cureton, 117 Tenn. 103 , 96 S.W. 608 (1906); Riggs v. Riggs, 181 Tenn. 633 , 184 S.W.2d 9 (1944).

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  • Deborah Harris v. Howell Dalton & Medical Associates

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Feb 13, 2001

    Frank Brown, III, Chancellor FILED APRIL 26, 2001 No. … Further, they were not treated the same by management in that the personnel files were not kept on the doctors because the doctors could only be disciplined by the Board. Our Supreme Court in Parker v.

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  • OLGUIN, MIGUEL v. AZTEC MASONRY, INC.

    2024 TN WC 34 · Tennessee Court of Workers' Compensation Claims · Apr 17, 2024

    This position is reinforced by the Appeals Board, which has stated that a surgical recommendation is one way to trigger an employee’s entitlement to a second opinion under section 50-6- 204(a)(3)(C). Bassham v. … Limberakis v. Pro-Tech Sec., Inc., 2017 TN Wrk. Comp. App. Bd. LEXIS 53, at *7 (Sept. 12, 2017). The Court has not terminated Mr.

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  • Acute Care Holdings, LLC v. Houston County, Tennessee

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Apr 20, 2026

    Godfrey v. Ruiz, 90 S.W.3d 692, 695 (Tenn. 2002). … TWB Architects, Inc. v. Braxton, LLC, 578 S.W.3d 879, 889 (Tenn. 2019).

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  • Frank Bell v. Christine Bradley

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Sep 27, 1995

    See Tomlinson v. Board of Equalization, 88 Tenn. 1, 6-7, 12 S.W. 414 (1889); Spunt v. Fowinkle, 572 S.W.2d 259, 265 (Tenn. App. 1978). … The correctness of the application of a principle of law by the Board of Claims is not reviewable by certiorari. Henry v. Board of Claims, 638 S.W.2d 825, 827 (Tenn. App. 1982).

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  • McFaddin v. Jackson

    738 S.W.2d 176 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jul 27, 1987

    City of Nashville, 206 Tenn. 64 , 332 S.W.2d 163 (1960); Buena Vista Special School Dist. v. Board of Election Com’rs of Carroll County, 173 Tenn. 198 , 116 S.W.2d 1008 (1938); Arthur v. … Brown, 163 Conn. 478, 502-503 , 313 A.2d 53 (1972); Thorpe v. Mahin, 43 I11.2d 36, 49, 250 N.E.2d 633 (1969); Katzenberg v. Comptroller of the Treasury, 263 Md. 189, 204 , 282 A.2d 465 (1971). Id. at 831.

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  • Spalding v. Spalding

    597 S.W.2d 739 · Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Feb 29, 1980

    See Bauer v. Bauer, 184 Tenn. 217 , 197 S.W.2d 892 (1946); Pendergrass v. Pendergrass, 56 Tenn.App. 227 , 405 S.W.2d 666 (1966). … .”_ Garrett, Tennessee Divorce, Alimony and Child Custody § 12-3, at 113 (1978); Brown v. Brown, 156 Tenn. 619, 626-27 , 4 S.W.2d 345, 347 (1928).

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  • Binkley v. Hughes

    168 Tenn. 86 · Tennessee Supreme Court · May 31, 1934

    We might add that in Hale v. Johnston, supra, the injury resulted from inflicting inhumane punishment on a prisoner, which was a positive wrong. In Johnson City Board of Education v. Ray, 154 Tenn., 180 , 289 S. … The court held that no such duty was imposed upon the board, but added that if such duty was imposed the board might be liable.

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  • Peoples v. Hagaman

    31 Tenn. App. 398 · Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Mar 9, 1948

    Church, as limited to its own' particular facts, and the soundness of the rule followed in the earlier case of Kirkman v. Brown, 93 Tenn. 476 , 27 S. W. 709 were reaffirmed. The distinction between Erck v. … Brown and the other cases cited, and which comprise the body of the law in this state upon the effect of a accidental possession. Erck v.

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  • Virnie Fulks v. J. Hulan Watson

    Court of Appeals of Tennessee · Jun 18, 2001

    Ryan v. Anderson, 481 S.W.2d 371, 374 (Tenn. 1972) (citing State v. Yoakum, 201 Tenn. 180, 297 S.W.2d 635 (1956)). Tenn. … Pullum v. Smallridge, 652 S.W .2d 338 (Tenn. 1 983); White v. Banks, 614 S.W.2d at 334; Mitchell v. G arrett, 510 S.W.2d 894, 89 8 (Tenn . 1974); Pemberton v. Wilson, 481 S.W.2d 760, 770 (Tenn. 1972); Galyon v.

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  • Blakemore v. Matthews

    154 Tenn. 334 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Jul 13, 1926

    Duncan, supra; Connor v. Frierson, supra; Saunders v. Simpson, 97 Tenn., 382 , 37 S. W., 195 ; Coal & Iron Co. v. Coppinger, 95 Tenn., 530 , 32 S. W., 465 ; Ferrell v. … Coal & Iron Co. v. Coppinger, supra; Brown v. Brown, 14 Lea (82 Tenn.), 253, 52 Am. Rep., 169 ; Railroad v. Hays, 11 Lea (79 Tenn.), 382, 47 Am. Rep., 291 ; Turner v. Turner, 2 Sneed (34 Tenn.), 27.

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