APPELLATE COURT OPINIONS

This is a grandparent's visitation case. Plaintiff, Donna Faye Glover England, is the maternal grandmother of Skylar Piercey, age four. Skylar's natural mother died in December of 1993. Skylar's natural father, Richard Piercey, now refuses to allow England to see Skylar. England filed a petition for grandparent visitation. The trial court dismissed the case based upon the Tennessee Supreme Court decision of Hawk v. Hawk, 855 S.W. 2d 573 (Tenn. 1993), reasoning that Hawk allows Piercey as the natural father, to deny England the right to see Skylar in the absence of a showing of substantial harm to the child. We affirm the decision of the trial court.

The sole issue presented by the appellant is: "Did the trial court err by awarding custody of the appellant's minor child to a third party?"

The Chancery Court of Davidson County dismissed the appellant's petition for declaratory judgment, filed pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-5-223, to review the Department of Correction's calculation of the credits due on his prison sentences. The chancellor concluded that the appellant had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies.

Appellants' appeal from the Chancellor's determination that the denial of unemployment benefits was properly based on the employees' misconduct connected with their work.

This is a suit to register and enforce a foreign divorce decree. The only issue on appeal is the proper amount of the judgment for delinquent child support.

The General SessionsCourt of Wilson County granted the wife a divorce after a six month marriage. The court ordered the marital residence sold and the wife paid $2,000 for her attorney's fees and $10,000 to equalize her equity in the property. After the deductions, the balance of the equity was to be split evenly between the parties.

This is a divorce case in which the Wife appeals the trial court's division of marital property and the court's award of custody to the Husband.

This is a declaratory judgment action to determine coverage under aninsurance policy. Plaintiff, Wright Jewelers, Inc., appeals from the order of the trial court denying its motion for summary judgment and granting summary judgment to defendant, Firemen's Fund Insurance Company, d/b/a The American Insurance Company.

This appeal involves a suit to recover on a policy of insurance covering employee dishonesty. Plaintiff, Strings & Things in Memphis, Inc., appeals from the judgment of the chancery court in a nonjury trial that dismissed its suit against defendant, State Auto Insurance Companies. The only issue on appeal is whether the evidence preponderates against the findings of the chancellor.

The Defendant, Brenda Fishburn, has appealed from an order denying her motion to set her counterclaim for trial. The motion was filed more than two years after an order had been entered dismissing the counterclaim and approximately 18 months after an agreed compromise decree had been  entered dismissing the claims of all parties to the litigation.

Gregory Adams Valentine was convicted by a jury of unlawful possessoin of a Schedule VI Substance with intent to manufacture, deliever, or sell (a Class E felony) and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia (a Class A misdemeanor). We granted his application for review pursuant to Rule 11, Tenn. R. Crim. P., in order to determine whether his testimony fulfilled the requirements of Rule 41 (g), Tenn.R.Crim.P., thereby preserving his right to challenge, on appeal, the admission of illegally obtain evidence.

This appeal involves the dismissal of a nine-year-old personal injury action stemming from a collision between a truck and an automobile that was part of a funeral procession. The driver of the automobile and his wife filed suit in the Circuit Court for Davidson County against the owner and driver of the truck. Following two non-suits, the plaintiffs filed their third complaint more than five years after taking their first non-suit. The trial court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment based on the statute of limitations. The plaintiffs assert on this appeal that the trial court’s decision is inconsistent with the “spirit” of the savings statute as recently construed by the Tennessee Supreme Court. We affirm the summary judgment and also find that this appeal is frivolous. Accordingly, we remand the case for the determination of damages for a frivolous appeal.

This is an appeal by defendants/appellants from the trial court's order granting plaintiff/appellee's motion for summary judgment and the resulting judgment entered in favor of plaintiff/appellee, C.A. Hobbs, Jr., Inc. ("Hobbs").