COURT OF APPEALS OPINIONS

State vs. Tony Higgs
02C01-9610-CC-00360
Trial Court Judge: Jon Kerry Blackwood

State vs. Heather Dowdy
02C01-9610-CR-00348
Trial Court Judge: Bernie Weinman

State vs. Will Mays
02C01-9611-CC-00411

State vs. Joe Sloan
02C01-9702-CC-00076
Trial Court Judge: Whit A. Lafon

Tennessee Teachers Credit Union vs. Orr
01A01-9701-CV-00005
Trial Court Judge: Walter C. Kurtz

State., ex. rel. Shaver vs. Shaver
01A01-9610-CV-00474
Trial Court Judge: Muriel Robinson

Laney vs. Campbell, Commissioner
01A01-9703-CH-00142
Trial Court Judge: Carol L. Mccoy

Loftus vs. Loftus, Jr.
01A01-9702-PB-00066
Trial Court Judge: Frank G. Clement, Jr.

Rudy Rogers vs. Gerald & Tony Young
02A01-9604-CH-00081
Trial Court Judge: John Walton West

02A01-611-CV-00267
02A01-611-CV-00267
Trial Court Judge: D'Army Bailey

Fred Dean vs. Donal Campbell, et al
02A01-9704-CV-00077
Trial Court Judge: Joseph H. Walker, III

Jenkins vs. Jenkins
01A01-9609-CV-00399
Trial Court Judge: John W. Rollins

Southeast Drilling & Blasting Services vs. BRS Construction Co.
01A01-9706-CH-00272
Trial Court Judge: Don R. Ash

Droussoitis vs. Damrron, et. al.
01A01-9612-CV-00548
Trial Court Judge: J. S. Daniel

Reliance Insurance Co. vs. WSN Leasing, Inc.
01A01-9612-CV-00552
Trial Court Judge: Thomas W. Brothers

Tomlin, a minor., et. al. vs. Warren,
01A01-9702-CV-00067
Trial Court Judge: Barbara N. Haynes

Curtis vs. Curtis
01A01-9508-CV-00385
Trial Court Judge: Muriel Robinson

State vs. Gray
M1998-00256-COA-R3-CV
Authoring Judge: Judge Ben H. Cantrell
Trial Court Judge: Gale B. Robinson
The sole remaining question in this appeal is whether in October of 1998 the General Sessions Court of Davidson County had jurisdiction over a contempt warrant issued for violating the Davidson County Circuit Court's order of protection. We affirm the General Sessions Court's exercise of jurisdiction.

Carolyn Franklin and Edward J. Franklin v. Rebecca A. Kimberly, et. al. - Concurring
01A01-9701-CV-00009
Authoring Judge: Judge Henry F. Todd
Trial Court Judge: Judge William B. Cain

This is an appeal from an interlocutory ruling which the Trial Judge rendered final as provided by TRCP Rule 54.02. The controversy on appeal is between St. Paul Insurance Company, a/k/a Economy Fire and Casualty Company, (hereafter St. Paul), and Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance  Company (hereafter Tennessee Farmers). The plaintiffs have filed a brief in support of their interest in the disposition of the appeal.

Tom Milligan and wife Louise Millgan v. Curtis George and wife Wilma George
01A01-9609-CH-00406
Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr.
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Robert E. Corlew, III

This interlocutory appeal involves a boundary line dispute between neighbors who live along Wilmouth Creek in Cannon County. Following inconclusive litigation between two of their neighbors, the owners of one of the tracts filed a boundary line action in the Chancery Court for Cannon County against the owners of one of the adjoining tracts that had been involved in the earlier litigation. The defending landowners moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the decision in the earlier litigation was res judicata as to the plaintiff landowners’ claims. The trial court denied the motion but grante permission to seek an interlocutory appeal. We granted the application for permission to appeal and now affirm the denial of the motion to dismiss because the parties in this case and the former case are not the same.

In re: Estate of Ora Sloan Blankenship, Deceased, Katherine Sloan Braden and Steve Sloan, v. Billie Ann Gann
01A01-9607-CV-00290
Authoring Judge: Judge Holly Kirby Lillard
Trial Court Judge: Judge William Harbison

This matter appears appropriate for consideration pursuant to Rule 10(a) of the Rules of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee.1 In this case, the decedent, Ora Sloan Blankenship (“Blankenship”), 84 years old, died on June 24, 1994. Subsequently, a petition was filed to probate Blankenship’s alleged holographic will. The purported holographic will named one of Blankenship’s sisters, Kathryn Braden (“Braden”) and Blankenship’s nephew, Steve Sloan (“Sloan”) as co-representatives of the estate.

Mark E. Miller, v. Michael P. Schrimpf, Rita Schrimpf, and Tennessee Title and Trust Inc., et al.
01A01-9612-CH-00558
Authoring Judge: Judge Ben H. Cantrell
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Tom E. Gray

The purchaser of a subdivision lot sued his agent and the sellers’ agent because the lot could not be approved for a septic tank. His complaint stated causes of action for fraud, negligence, and a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act. The Chancery Court of Sumner County granted summary judgment to both agents. We reverse the simple negligence claim as to the purchaser’s own agent. In all other respects, the judgment is affirmed.

Pig Improvement Co. Inc., v. Curt Reaver & Richard Alan Tracey, Jr. - Concurring
01-A-01-9610-CV-00478
Authoring Judge: Judge Samuel L. Lewis
Trial Court Judge: Judge Thomas W. Brothers

This is an appeal by plaintiff/appellant, Pig Improvement Co., Inc., from a decision of the Sixth Circuit Court for Davidson County dismissing Pig Improvements’s complaint against defendants/appellees, Curt Reaver and Richard Alan Tracey, Jr. The facts out of which this matter arose are as follows.

Diana Sue Long, v. Michael George Long
01A01-9701-CV-00003
Authoring Judge: Judge Samuel L. Lewis
Trial Court Judge: Judge Muriel Robinson

This is an appeal by the defendant, Michael George Long, from that portion of the trial court’s judgment which awarded alimony in futuro to his former wife, Diana Sue Long, who was the plaintiff below.

Diana Sue Long, v. Michael George Long
01A01-9701-CV-00003
Authoring Judge: Judge Samuel L. Lewis
Trial Court Judge: Judge Muriel Robinson

This is an appeal by the defendant, Michael George Long, from that portion of the trial court’s judgment which awarded alimony in futuro to his former wife, Diana Sue Long, who was the plaintiff below.