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| Kenneth Lewis vs. Dept. of Correction
M2000-00675-COA-R3-CV
Appellant, a Department of Corrections inmate, appeals the dismissal of his petition for a writ of certiorari relative to disciplinary action by the TDOC resulting from a positive drug screen. We affirm the trial judge.
Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain
Originating Judge:Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr. |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 12/14/00 | |
| Peter Greer v. Dept of Correction
M2000-00222-COA-R3-CV
This appeal involves a dispute between a prisoner and the Tennessee Department of Correction regarding a change in the way the Department reports pre-trial sentence credits. Believing that the change increased the length of his sentence, the prisoner filed suit in the Chancery Court for Davidson County to rescind the change. The trial court concluded that the change had not altered the prisoner's sentence expiration date and dismissed the petition. We affirm.
Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr.
Originating Judge:Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr. |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 12/14/00 | |
| Peggy Boles vs. Dept. of Correction
M2000-00893-COA-R3-CV
The wife of an incarcerated person brought an action seeking to have a policy of the Department of Correction declared invalid. The policy involved a visitor's responsibility to control children while visiting an inmate in a state prison. The trial court dismissed the petition. We affirm.
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Patricia J. Cottrell
Originating Judge:Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr. |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 12/14/00 | |
| Ronald L. Davis vs. Hershell D. Koger
M2000-01598-COA-R3-CV
This appeal involves a dispute between a convicted felon and the lawyer appointed to represent him in his efforts to reopen his post-conviction challenge to his conviction. After the efforts to set aside his conviction proved unsuccessful, the prisoner sued the lawyer in the Chancery Court for Maury County arguing that his civil rights had been violated because his lawyer had conspired with the prosecutor and the trial judge to prevent him from obtaining the post-conviction relief to which he believed he was entitled. The lawyer denied these allegations, and the prisoner moved for a summary judgment. On June 15, 2000, the trial court summarily dismissed the prisoner's complaint on two grounds. First, the court concluded that it did not have subject matter jurisdiction to consider claims regarding the denial of the prisoner's request for post-judgment relief. Second, the trial court concluded that the prisoner had failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. We affirm the dismissal of the prisoner's complaint.
Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr.
Originating Judge:Stella L. Hargrove |
Maury County | Court of Appeals | 12/14/00 | |
| Sheucraft vs. Roberts
M1999-01645-COA-R3-CV
This is a custody dispute between the maternal grandparents, Petitioners, and the biological father, Respondent. The child, Lexie, was born to Dewey and Lisa Roberts in October of 1991 and was seven years of age at the June 1999 trial. In 1995, Dewey Roberts and Lisa Sheucraft Roberts separated, and Lisa Roberts and Lexie moved in with the Petitioners. Ms. Roberts and the child continued to reside with the Petitioners until her unexpected death in 1998 from a brain aneurysm related to a cocaine overdose. The Respondent has a history of drug and alcohol abuse and, at the time of trial, was involved in an abusive relationship with a female companion. The trial court, applying the "substantial harm" test of Bond v. McKenzie, 896 S.W.2d 546 (Tenn. 1995), found that to change the residential arrangements from the grandparents' home to the father's home would be devastating to the child and would result in substantial harm to her. The trial court further found that it is in the child's best interests to spend the majority of her time with the maternal grandparents. Respondent appeals and we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain
Originating Judge:Marietta M. Shipley |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 12/13/00 | |
| Fontenot vs. Fontenot
M1999-02322-COA-R3-CV
This appeal arises from the trial court's division of marital property and martial debt, award of alimony, and award of attorney's fees. After reviewing the record and applicable law, the trial court's judgment is affirmed as modified.
Authoring Judge: Judge Ben H. Cantrell
Originating Judge:C. K. Smith |
Wilson County | Court of Appeals | 12/13/00 | |
| Isbell vs. Travis Electric Co., et al
M1999-00052-COA-R3-CV
After Plaintiff resigned from his job and attempted to start his own competing business, his former manager informed a mutual client of the circumstances surrounding his resignation. Plaintiff sued his former employer and its service manager, alleging slander, libel, defamation, and tortious interference with contract. The trial court directed a verdict for Defendants, and Plaintiff appeals, arguing that the trial court misapplied the substantial truth doctrine, failed to apply the doctrine of implication, and was incorrect in its finding that no contract existed between Plaintiff and his new company's main client. Plaintiff also insists that, by failing to grant a new trial so that he could add an allegation of invasion of privacy, the court ignored the proper legal consequences arising from the disclosure of a confidential drug test. For the following reasons, we affirm the decision of the trial court.
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Patricia J. Cottrell
Originating Judge:Hamilton V. Gayden, Jr. |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 12/13/00 | |
| Moore vs. Moore
M1999-02301-COA-R3-CV
In this divorce case, the husband argues that the trial court erred in the way it classified and distributed the parties' marital property. We agree that the trial court's implied classification of the parties' home on Pleasant Cove Road was erroneous as a matter of law, but we find that its disposition of the property was nonetheless within the court's authority and discretion. We accordingly modify the final decree to reflect our view of its correct classification, but otherwise affirm the trial court.
Authoring Judge: Judge Ben H. Cantrell
Originating Judge:Charles D. Haston, Sr. |
Warren County | Court of Appeals | 12/13/00 | |
| Owen vs. Martin
M1999-02305-COA-R3-CV
The trial court found that a mother and her adult son had both breached an oral contract whereby the son agreed to pay off the mortgage on his mother's home and to permit her to remain there for the rest of her life, and the mother agreed to give the son her equity in the home upon her death, and to allow him to use a garage apartment in the home until that time. We reverse the trial court's finding that there was an enforceable contract between the parties, but we impress a resulting trust on the son's interest in the home, which inures to his mother's benefit.
Authoring Judge: Judge Ben H. Cantrell
Originating Judge:Ellen Hobbs Lyle |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 12/13/00 | |
| Jill Michelle Kaufmann Rabuck v. Robert Lewis Rabuck
E2000-0474-COA-R3-CV
Originating Judge:Frank V. Williams, III |
Roane County | Court of Appeals | 12/12/00 | |
| Local Union 760 of the IBEW, et al v. City of Harriman and Harriman Utility Board
E2000-00367-COA-R3-CV
This appeal from the Roane County Chancery Court concerns whether the Chancery Court erred in determining that a collective bargaining agreement entered into between Appellant, Local Union 760 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and Appellees, the City of Harriman and the Harriman Utility Board, is null and void. We affirm the decision of the Chancery Court and remand for further proceedings, if any, consistent with this opinion. We adjudge costs of the appeal against the Appellants.
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Houston M. Goddard
Originating Judge:Chancellor Frank V. Williams, III |
Roane County | Court of Appeals | 12/08/00 | |
| Robert Lafferty, et al., v. City of Winchester, et al.
M1997-00224-COA-R3-CV
This appeal involves a dispute between the owners of a bed and breakfast and the City of Winchester regarding a proposed expansion of the business's bar and banquet facilities. When the city's Board of Zoning Appeals declined to approve the expansion, the owners of the bed and breakfast filed a petition for a common-law writ of certiorari in the Circuit Court for Franklin County challenging the Board's decision. After reviewing the record of the proceedings before the Board, the trial court determined that the Board acted within its discretion when it declined to approve the proposed expansion of the bed and breakfast. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr.
Originating Judge:Judge J. Curtis Smith |
Franklin County | Court of Appeals | 12/07/00 | |
| In re: Stephanie Ann Linville, a Minor
M2000-01097-COA-R3-CV
This appeal arises from the trial court's grant of an award of child support to the appellee, the child's paternal grandmother and legal custodian, from the child's mother. For reasons stated herein, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Ben H. Cantrell
Originating Judge:Judge Ben Hall McFarlin, Jr. |
Rutherford County | Court of Appeals | 12/07/00 | |
| Harry Barnett and Elizabeth Barnett, vs. Gary L. Lane and Donna L. Lane
E2000-00967-COA-R3-CV
Plaintiffs, purchasers of house from defendants, were awarded damages for defects in house not revealed by defendants. Plaintiffs appeal, asking punitive damages and an increase in compensatory damages. We affirm.
Authoring Judge: Judge Herschel P. Franks
Originating Judge:Chancellor John F. Weaver |
Knox County | Court of Appeals | 12/06/00 | |
| Harry Fletcher, et al., v. Anthony Edwin Bickford, et al.
E2000-01020-COA-R3-CV
Plaintiff's car was caught between the minivan in front of him and the dump truck behind him when the minivan and Plaintiff's car stopped to avoid an obstruction in the roadway. The dump truck was unable to stop and hit Plaintiff's car. The jury returned a verdict for Plaintiff for $225,000. The jury allocated 80 percent of the fault against the dump truck driver and owner and 20 percent of the fault against Plaintiff's uninsured motorist insurance carrier on behalf of the unknown driver of a truck which dropped the obstruction onto the road. The dump truck driver and owner appeal, raising issues of law including the introduction of claimed inadmissible evidence, prejudicial final argument, improper and incomplete jury instructions, jury misconduct and the failure of the Trial Court to grant Defendants' motions for directed verdict and judgment notwithstanding the verdict. We affirm the judgment of the Trial Court.
Authoring Judge: Judge David Michael Swiney
Originating Judge:Judge W. Neil Thomas, III |
Hamilton County | Court of Appeals | 12/05/00 | |
| Angela Joan Wagner, v. Rodney Keith Wagner
M1999-01045-COA-R3-CV
The trial court granted the parties a divorce, ordered joint custody of the parties' minor son, and divided the marital property. On appeal, Ms. Wagner contends that the trial court's award of joint custody on an alternating week basis was improper, that the division of marital property was inequitable, and that the trial court's order requiring her to bear one-half of the child's medical insurance was improper. We disagree and affirm the trial court's judgment.
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Ben H. Cantrell
Originating Judge:Chancellor Robert E. Corlew, III |
Rutherford County | Court of Appeals | 11/30/00 | |
| James W. Hunter vs. Shirley C. Hunter
E2000-00662-COA-R3-CV
In this divorce case, Shirley C. Hunter ("Wife") appeals, arguing that the trial court erred (1) in classifying and dividing the parties' property; (2) in refusing to find James W. Hunter ("Husband") in contempt for failing to pay Wife's medical bills; (3) in restricting Wife's spousal support award to one of alimony in solido of $7,200; (4) in awarding Husband a judgment against Wife for $5,068.53 in connection with Wife's use of his vehicle; and (5) in failing to award Wife her attorney's fees. We vacate the trial court's judgment ordering Wife to pay for her use of Husband's vehicle. In all other respects, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
Authoring Judge: Judge Charles D. Susano, Jr.
Originating Judge:Telford E. Forgerty, Jr. |
Grainger County | Court of Appeals | 11/30/00 | |
| Hodges vs. TN Atty. General
M2000-00550-COA-R3-CV
This appeal arises from the dismissal of a prisoner's pro se complaint for failure to prosecute. The Chancery Court for Davidson County dismissed the complaint eleven months after it was filed because the prisoner had failed to provide summonses and copies of the complaint for service on the defendants. The prisoner has appealed to this court. Instead of arguing that the trial court erred by dismissing his complaint for failure to prosecute, the prisoner has simply renewed the assertions he made in the trial court that his sentence credits have been calculated incorrectly and that he should be released on parole. We determined that the trial court properly dismissed the complaint for failure to prosecute.
Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr.
Originating Judge:Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr. |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 11/30/00 | |
| Kennedy vs. Kennedy
M1997-00219-COA-R3-CV
This appeal involves a man's efforts to use his voluntary early retirement as a basis for ending his spousal support obligation. Three years after the divorce, the man filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Davidson County seeking to end his responsibility to pay child support. His former wife responded by filing a petition seeking to hold him in contempt for failure to pay spousal support. Following a bench trial, the trial court dismissed the man's petition, held him in contempt, and entered a $3,106 judgment against him for back spousal support. On this appeal, the man asserts that the trial court erred by declining to relieve him of his alimony obligation because of his inability to pay and his former spouse's lack of need. We affirm the trial court's judgment.
Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr.
Originating Judge:Muriel Robinson |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 11/30/00 | |
| Department of Children's Services, vs. D. & G.M.
E1999-01359-COA-R3-CV
The Trial Judge terminated mother's parental rights to her three minor children. We affirm.
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Herschel P. Franks
Originating Judge:Suzanne Bailey |
Hamilton County | Court of Appeals | 11/28/00 | |
| Berman Kennedy vs. Darlene Lane-Detman, et al
E2000-01315-COA-R3-CV
The defendant Herbert G. Adcox guaranteed, in part, payment of a $35,000 promissory note executed by Darlene Lane-Detman in favor of the plaintiff Berman D. Kennedy. Adcox's guaranty took the form of a post-dated check in the amount of $30,000. When Detman defaulted on the note and Adcox then stopped payment on the check, the plaintiff sued Adcox on the check. The trial court granted Adcox summary judgment, finding that the record before it established a number of affirmative defenses. We affirm the trial court's decision to grant summary judgment to Adcox, because we find that Kennedy modified the repayment terms of Detman's note without Adcox's consent.
Authoring Judge: Judge Charles D. Susano, Jr.
Originating Judge:W. Frank Brown, III |
Hamilton County | Court of Appeals | 11/28/00 | |
| Tindell's Inc. vs. Mary Ava Partin
E2000-01640-COA-R3-CV
This is a suit to recover the sales price of certain materials sold to the Defendant and to enforce a lien against certain property if the judgment rendered is not paid. The Trial Court found in favor of the Plaintiff, resulting in this appeal, wherein the Defendant questions the introduction of certain proof and insists the preponderance of the evidence is contrary to the Trial Court's determination. We affirm.
Authoring Judge: Judge Houston M. Goddard
Originating Judge:Billy Joe White |
Campbell County | Court of Appeals | 11/28/00 | |
| G.L. Omohundro, et al vs. Paul Harrison, et al
E2000-00666-COA-R3-CV
This is a suit by investors in The Great Smoky Mountain Opry Corporation against a number of defendants including Paul Harrison. The trial court found a violation of the Tennessee Securities Act of 1980 and awarded the plaintiffs a judgment for $56,932.50. Harrison appeals, contending that the judgment should be reversed. We affirm.
Authoring Judge: Judge Charles D. Susano, Jr.
Originating Judge:Daryl R. Fansler |
Knox County | Court of Appeals | 11/28/00 | |
| HMC Technologies Corp.vs. Siebe, Inc.
E2000-01093-COA-R3-CV
In this declaratory judgment action, the plaintiff, HMC Technologies Corp. a/k/a HMC Technologies, Inc. ("HMC"), sued to enforce an indemnification provision contained in a proposal submitted to, and accepted by, the defendant, Siebe, Inc.
Authoring Judge: Judge Charles D. Susano, Jr.
Originating Judge:Sharon J. Bell |
Knox County | Court of Appeals | 11/27/00 | |
| Elpidio Placencia vs. Lauren Placencia
W1999-01812-COA-R3-CV
Authoring Judge: Judge W. Frank Crawford
Originating Judge:George H. Brown |
Shelby County | Court of Appeals | 11/27/00 |