Pee Wee Wisdom Child Development Center and Vivian Braxton v. Robert E. Cooper, Jr., in his official capacity as Attorney General & Reporter for the State of Tennessee

This extraordinary appeal involves proceedings to dissolve a nonprofit corporation. After the case had been pending in the trial court for seven years, with a court-appointed receiver in control of the nonprofit corporation’s assets, the trial court dismissed the case in its entirety based upon a motion to dismiss that was filed early in the proceedings but never heard. We conclude that the trial court erred in doing so, and therefore, we reverse and remand for further  proceedings, to include an orderly winding up of the nonprofit corporation’s affairs and a proper termination of the receivership when appropriate.