Teri Michelle Parker, v. Richard Ken Parker
In this case, Plaintiff-Appellant, Teri Michelle Parker (Wife), appeals the trial court’s decision to award custody of the parties' child, Dylan Ken Parker, to Defendant-Appellee, Richard Ken Parker (Husband), alleging that the custody determination was based on the effects of racial prejudice. We affirm the trial court’s award of custody to Husband. |
Houston | Court of Appeals | |
Victoria Angozi Anene v. John N. Namdi Anene
The Defendant, John Namdi Anene appeals a judgment of the Circuit Court of Hamilton County granting Victoria Ngozi Anene's petition for divorce and awarding her custody of their three minor children. Mr. Anene raises five issues on appeal, two of which are jurisdictional. (See appendix.) As to the jurisdictional issues, we find that the Circuit Court of Hamilton was correct in assuming jurisdiction to hear both the divorce and custody issues. We find the remainint issues to be without merit.
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Hamilton | Court of Appeals | |
Richard Briggs and Stephanie R. Briggs, v. Riversound Limited Partnership, William S. Nix, D/B/A WEN Enterprises, General Partner, and Daryl Wagner
The single issue in this case is whether a remote purchaser of a home may maintain a negligence action against the builder of the home despite a lack of contractual privity. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant and this appeal resulted. We reverse the judgment of the trial court. |
Knox | Court of Appeals | |
Ada Bell Brown and Beverly J. Everett, Marion Evertt Barton, and Gerald Joseph Everett, v. Ralph Everett (Individually) and as Executor of the Estate of Joseph Robert Everett, et al.
Walter Everett died in 1993; his children Marion Everett Barton and Gerald Joseph Everett were substituted as plaintiffs in place of their father. In this contest of the will of the deceased, Joseph Everett, a jury returned special verdicts that the deceased did not have sufficient mental capacity to make a valid will, and Joseph Robert Everett, Deceased, was unduly influenced by Ralph Everett on March 11 to the extent that such influence amounted to coercion, destroying the free will of the deceased and substituting his will for the deceased and compelling the deceased to make a disposition he otherwise would not have made.
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Bledsoe | Court of Appeals | |
Mark McCain v. Airport Honda and Bob Rutherford
In this action asking damages for alleged retaliatory discharge, the Trial Court granted employer summary judgment, and plaintiff has appealed. We affirm.
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William A. Winningham Executor of the Estate of Alston Winningham v. Tammy K. Winningham - Concurring
We are called upon in this appeal to determine whether relying on the advice of an attorney in filing an unfounded will contest constitutes probable cause sufficient to avoid the enforcement of a forfeiture clause in the will. For the reasons set forth below, we find that such reliance does constitute probable cause, and reverse the judgment of the trial court. |
Cumberland | Court of Appeals | |
State of Tennessee, v. Brian K. Collins
The defendant, Brian K. Collins, was convicted of violating a habitual traffic offender order, violation of registration, and evading arrest. He was sentenced as a range one offender to two years for violating the order, thirty days for violation of registration, and eleven months and twenty nine days for evading arrest, all to be served concurrently. This is his appeal of right. |
Sullivan | Court of Appeals | |
State of Tennessee, v. John Russell Turner
The appellant, John Russell Turner, appeals from his conviction by a jury for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. The Circuit Court of Blount County sentenced the appellant to eleven months and twenty-nine days incarceration in the county jail and suspended all but five days. On appeal, the appellant contends that the evidence adduced at trial is insufficient to support a conviction, because the State failed to prove that he intended to operate a vehicle. |
Blount | Court of Appeals | |
State of Tennessee v. John Russell Turner
The appellant, John Russell Turner, appeals from his conviction by a juryfor driving under the influence of an intoxicant. The Circuit Court of Blount County sentenced the appellant to eleven months and twenty-nine days incarceration in the county jail and suspended all but five days. On appeal, theappellant contends that the evidence adduced at trial is insufficient to support a conviction, because the State failed to prove that he intended to operate a vehicle. |
Blount | Court of Appeals | |
Arthur Blair v. Marilyn Badenhope - Concurring
Joy Badenhope is the child of Susan Badenhope and Arthur Blair. Susan Badenhope, a resident of North Carolina, died when the child was less than one year old. After her death, Joy began residing with her maternal grandmother, Marilyn Badenhope, in Tennessee. The grandmother was granted custody by a North Carolina court in an action for custody she filed some two months after the mother's death. The father soon thereafter moved to Tennessee and filed an action in Tennessee to increase visitation and attain custody. |
Greene | Court of Appeals | |
Faye Louise Taylor Chadwell, v. Albert Chadwell and Consolidation Coal Company
In this post-divorce proceeding, the Chancellor found that certain assets owned by Albert Chadwell at the time of the parties' divorce were marital assets and that his former wife, Fay Louise Taylor Chadwell, was entitled to a judgment against him of $94,320, which included the interest from the date of the divorce. The Chancellor also impressed a lien against certain real estate originally owned by Mr. Chadwell, who later purported to transfer an interest to his present wife. Both the real estate and the home Mr. Chadwell erected thereon were paid for in part with the assets in dispute in this appeal. |
Campbell | Court of Appeals | |
Debra Jewell Young Ford v. Dennis Clifford Ford
This appeal arises from the judgment of the trial court which, among other things, awarded a divorce to the defendant, provided for custody of the parties' minor children and made a division of the marital estate. We affirm the judgment of the trial court. |
Court of Appeals | ||
Fred Johns, Administrator of The Estate of Sue Eva Johns, v. Takoma Adventist Hospital
In this action for damages for personal injuries to the deceased, the complaint alleged the deceased was placed in a room while in defendant hospital, and on April 18, 1991, she ws found lying on the floor with injuries about her head and face. It was further alleged that it was not learned until wll after her death, in conversation with the physicians of the plaintiff decedent, that the decedent more likely would have survived for many years had she not fallen... |
Greene | Court of Appeals | |
Susan Renee Wright Williamson v. John Houston Williamson
In this divorce action the Trial Court awarded to each party an absolute divorce from the other on the grounds of inappropriate marital conduct. The Court awarded the custody of the parties' two minor children to the mother, ordered the father to pay child support and based upo the guidelihes, and in dividing the parties' marital estate concluded that their home was a gift from the husband's paretns to him alone, and therefore separate property. From this latter determination, the wife has appealed.
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Cooksey vs. Shelley
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Wilson | Court of Appeals | |
X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX
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X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX
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02A01-9211-CV-00327
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Shelby | Court of Appeals | |
02A01-9505-CV-00112
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Shelby | Court of Appeals | |
01-9511-CV-00242
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Gibson | Court of Appeals | |
01-9511-CV-00242
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Gibson | Court of Appeals | |
01A01-9505-CH-00215
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Davidson | Court of Appeals | |
01A01-9604-CH-00148
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Dickson | Court of Appeals | |
01A01-9511-CH-00493
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X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX
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