COURT OF APPEALS OPINIONS

Corbin Dale Meador, v. Linda J. Meador
03A01-9612-CV-00405
Authoring Judge: Judge Robert M. Summitt
Trial Court Judge: Presiding Judge Houston P. Goddard

The controversy presently on appeal attacks a judgment entered in a post-divorce petition for contempt, wherein Linda J. Meador seeks to recover property she contends was awarded he i the divorce decree and to find her fomer husband, Corbin Dale Meador in contempt of court for refusing to deliver the property to her.

Anthony W. Nance and Brandon Nance v. Christopher H. Strunk
03A01-9701-CV-00037
Authoring Judge: Justice Herschel P. Franks
Trial Court Judge: Judge Conrad E. Troutman, Jr.

In this action arisitn grom a motor vehicle accident, the defendants were granted summary judgment and plaintiffs have appealed.

First Tennessee Bank, National Association, v. Jessi O. Quillian
03A01-9701-CH-00014
Authoring Judge: Judge Don T. McMurray
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor R. Vann Owens

This case originated as an action to collect monies due under the terms of a promissory note executed by the defendant to the plaintiff First Tennessee Bank, National Association. An answer was filed by the defendant admitting the execution of the note and that there was an outstanding balance thereon. He also filed a counterclaim in which he sought a setoff and damages for forged checks drawn on his account and paid by the bank. The trial court on motion of the plaintiff, entered a summary judgment against the defendant on the original complaint and dismissed the counterclaim. A judgment in the amount of $34,399.24 was entered against the defendant. This appeal resulted. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Crystal M. Trueitt v. Alan A. McCurry and Carmen Y. Silvels, v. Alan A. McCurry
03A01-9612-CV-00399
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Houston P. Goddard
Trial Court Judge: Judge Samuel H. Payne

Crystal M. Trueitt and Carmen Y. Silvels, individually and as mother and next friend of Christopher M. Silvels, a minor,2 appeal jugements rendered in heir favor in the Circuit Court for Hamilton County in the amount of $1,033.36, $1,004.60, and $98.50, respectively.

Aeyon Cho v. Dae-Young Jeong - Concurring
03A01-9608-CV-00257
Authoring Judge: Judge Charles D. Susano, Jr.
Trial Court Judge: Judge Bill Swan

We granted the application of Dae-Young Jeong (Husband) for an interlocutory appeal pursuant to Rule 9, T.R.A.P., to consider whether the trial court has subject matter jurisdiction to grant his wife, the plaintiff Aeyon Cho (Wife), an absolute divorce.

Whitney Leigh Davidson, Minor Child, by next friend, Rozan Davidson, v. Donna Wright, et al.
03A01-9702-CH-00051
Authoring Judge: Senior Judge William H. Inman
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor William Everett Lantripp

The Knox County Board of Education adopted a policy against the possession of weapons on school campuses for the school year beginning in September 1995. Whitney Leigh Davidson was provided a copy of the West High School Handbook which explained the policy and the consequences of its violation. On January 23, 1996, while a junior at West High School, she was suspended for a violation of the policy. Following a series of administrative hearings the Board of Education held a plenary hearing and upheld the decision to expel Ms Davidson for one year. Judicial review resulted in a finding that the Board had not acted arbitrarily, illegally or beyond its jurisdiction in expelling Ms. Davidson.

Brian Grant vs. Tonya Grant
02A01-9603-CV-00053

Richard Gause D/B/A Roofworks of Tennessee, v. Anice Cole, D/B/A Riverside Shop and Jerry Ogle
03A01-9707-CH-00001
Authoring Judge: Judge Don T. McMurray
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Chester R. Rainwater, Jr.

This case originated as an action to enforce a lien for work and materials pursuant to  T. C. A. § 66- 11- 126. The plaintiff alleged that he had furnished equipment, labor, and materials which were used for improvements on the property which the defendant, Cole occupied as lessee and the defendant, Ogle, was an owner. The defendant, Ogle, filed an answer, generally stated that he owned an interest in the subject property, but was without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations set forth in the complaint.

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W. Dale Gordon v. Robbyn Gordon - Concurring
03A01- 9702- CV- 00054
Authoring Judge: Judge Don T. McMurray
Trial Court Judge: Judge Conrad Troutman, Jr.

This is a divorce case that comes to us in an unusual posture. The Husband filed his original complaint on April 3, 1996.  No answer was filed by the Wife.  A marital dissolution agreement was filed on June 12, 1996. The marital dissolution agreement provided for the division of  the parties' property and further contained the following provision:

The parties agree that they are equally responsible for the breakdown of  the marriage and respectfully request the court to declare them divorced rather than awarding a divorce to either party alone.

Jorge Ariel Sanjines, M.D., v. Ortwein and Associates, P.C., William H. Ortwein, J. Cris Helton, and John R. Morgan
3A01-9702-CV-00060
Authoring Judge: Judge Herschel Pickens Franks
Trial Court Judge: Judge Douglas A. Meyer

Plaintiff, incarcerated in prison, brought this action against this attorney for alleged malpractice in representing him in the charges brought against him for criminal conduct.

Mabel Donnelly v. Robert E. Walter M. D. and Hermitage Nursing Center - Concurring
03A01-9610-CV-00323
Authoring Judge: Judge Charles D. Susano, Jr.
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor G. Richard Johnson

Plaintiff Mabel Donnelly (Donnelly) appealed the trial court’s denial of her motion to reconsider a grant of summary judgment to the defendants Dr.  Robert E. Walter (Dr. Walter) and Hermitage Nursing Home (Hermitage).  She presents for our review the question of whether the denial of her  motion to reconsider was an abuse of the trial court’s discretion. For their part, the defendants contend that Donnelly’s appeal should be dismissed because of her failure to serve a copy of the notice of appeal on the clerk of this court. We affirm.

Deborah Hendrix, v. First Tennessee National Corporation, D/B/A First Tennessee Bank
03A01-9701-CV-00032
Authoring Judge: Senior Judge William H. Inman
Trial Court Judge: Judge G. Richard Johnson

This action for damages for defamation and outrageous conduct was dismissed on motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff presents the propriety of the dismissal for appellate review, which is de novo on the record with no presumption of correctness. Johnson v. EMPE, Inc., 837 S.W.2d 62, 68 (Tenn. App. 1992).

Terri G. Bowers, v. Frederick Allan Bowers
03A01-9701-CV-00008
Authoring Judge: Judge Herschel Pickens Franks
Trial Court Judge: Judge Bill Swann

In this custody dispute, the Trial Judge granted custody of the parties' child to the father, and the mother has appealed.

Edward J. Eyring, M.D., v. Fort Sanders Parkwest Medical Center, Inc., and Fort Sanders Alliance, Inc.
03A01-9607-CV-00240
Authoring Judge: Per Curiam
Trial Court Judge: Judge Wheeler A. Rosenbalm

We are primarily called upon in this appeal to decide whether the Tennessee Peer Review Law of 1967 ( T. C. A. § 63-6-219) ( t he La w), grants immunity to hospitals for actions taken against physicians. 1. Parkwest Hospital was purchased by Fort Sanders Alliance in 1990 and became known as Fort Sanders Parkwest Medical Center. We hereafter refer to the hospital as "Parkwest". 2.  upon recommendations of peer review boards or committees.  For reasons hereinafter stated, we believe that the law was intended to, and does, grant hospitals such immunity. We affimr the judgment of the trial court.

Christopher Brian Minnich, v. Nancy Graves Roberson
03A01-9612-CV-00384
Authoring Judge: Judge Don T. McMurray
Trial Court Judge: Judge Bill Swann

This is an appeal from the judgment of the trial court granting joint custody of the parties' minor children to the parties, with the husband having primary residential custody. For reasons hereinafter stated, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

In Re: Estate of Carl Parrott; Wanda P. Patterson v. Jerry K Galyon - Concurring
03A01-9612-CH-00386
Authoring Judge: Judge Don T. McMurray
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Chester S. Rainwater, Jr.

This is a declaratory action wherein the parties seek to have a portion of the will of Carl Parrot t, deceased, construed by the court. Carl Parrott died testate on February 20, 1990. His Last Will and Testament was executed on January 3, 1983, and named his attorney, Jerry K. Galyon, and his daughter, Wanda Parrott Patterson, co- executors.

Jerry Williams v. Memphis Housing Authority and Mable Monday v. Memphis Housing Authority
02A01-9608-CV-00190
Authoring Judge: Judge David R. Farmer
Trial Court Judge: Judge Wyeth Chandler

Defendant Memphis Housing Authority(MHA) appeals several orders entered by the trial court in favor of two of MHA’s former employees, Plaintiffs/Appellees Jerry D. Williams and Mable Monday (collectively, the Employees). In separate actions filed below, the Employees sued MHA for breach of employment contract. In both cases, the trial court entered orders granting the Employees’ motions for summary judgment based on the court’s conclusion that MHA’s Manual of Operations constituted part of the employment contract between the parties and, further, that MHA breached this contract by terminating the Employees without just cause. Amending the pleadings to conform to the proof in the records, the trial court’s foregoing orders also granted summary judgment to the Employees on their claims that, in terminating the Employees, MHA violated their rights to substantive and procedural due process.1 After conducting a subsequent hearing on the issue of remedies, the trial court entered final orders granting the Employees back pay and reinstatement to their former positions with MHA.2 Upon MHA’s motion, this court consolidated MHA’s appeals of the trial court’s judgments in favor of Williams and Monday because the appeals involve common questions of law and fact.3

Iva Dell Brown McAlexander v. Kenneth Jackson McAlexander
02A01-9611-CH-00289
Authoring Judge: Judge David R. Farmer
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Joe C. Morris

Following the trial court’s order granting the parties an absolute divorce, distributing the parties’ property, awarding custody of the parties’ four minor children to Iva Dell Brown McAlexander (the Mother), and ordering Kenneth Jackson McAlexander (the Father) to pay child support to the Mother pursuant to the Child Support Guidelines, Father appealed. The sole issue presented by the Father is whether the trial court erred in granting custody of the parties’ four children to the Mother. We affirm.

Evelyn Campbell, a/k.a Elvin Campbell, Erma Dorton and Edria Humphrey, vs. Union Planters Bank , Formerly Commerce Federal Savings Bank
E1999-01910-COA-R3-CV
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Herschel P. Franks
Trial Court Judge: Kindall T. Lawson
In this action to recover on two certificates of deposit against the bank, the Trial Judge directed a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs after sustaining an objection to the bank's attempt to offer its business records in evidence. The bank has appealed, and we reverse and remand for a new trial.

Gilley vs. Culpepper
01A01-9611-CH-00521
Trial Court Judge: William C. Koch

Estate of Jane & John Doe vs. Vanderbilt Univ., et. al.
01A01-9609-CV-00429
Trial Court Judge: Hamilton V. Gayden, Jr.

Gilley vs. Culpepper
01A01-9611-CH-00521
Trial Court Judge: Ellen Hobbs Lyle

Nationsbank vs. JDRC
03A01-9607-CH-00226

Moore vs. Tate
03A01-9611-CV-00350

State, ex. rel., Douglas Sizemore vs. United Physicians Insurance
01A01-9610-CH-00484
Trial Court Judge: Ellen Hobbs Lyle