Alexander v. Armentrout

How courts have described this case

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• holding defendants waived defense of equitable estoppel on appeal because they failed to raise defense during trial court proceedings
• holding the plaintiff waived the defense of equitable estoppel on appeal where he failed to raise this defense during trial court proceedings
• holding argument not raised at trial may not be raised for the first time on appeal
• finding that an issue was “not properly preserved for appeal” where the defense was not addressed in the defendants’ answers to either the complaint or amended complaint, at any time during the trial, in a jury instruction, or in their motions for new trial
• “Because the defense of equitable estoppel was never raised during the trial court proceedings, the issue was waived and the Court of Appeals should not have considered the defense.”
• “Additionally, we conclude that the Court of Appeals erroneously relied upon the doctrine of equitable estoppel in reversing the judgment of the trial court because the doctrine was not properly preserved for appeal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

95 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Tina Marie Hodge v. Chadwick Craig
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2012-10-01· cited 417×
• Creech v. Addington
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2009-03-31· cited 213×
• Newcomb v. Kohler Co.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-09-05· cited 210×
• Burton v. Warren Farmers Cooperative
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-09-12· cited 133×
• Fahrner v. SW Manufacturing, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-05-16· cited 101×
• Duran v. Hyundai Motor America, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-02-27· cited 89×
• Watson v. Watson
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2009-08-06· cited 82×
• Kelley v. Johns
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-07-12· cited 65×
• Osborne v. Mountain Life Insurance Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2004-03-12· cited 52×
• Franklin v. Swift Transportation Co.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-07-12· cited 51×
• Jones v. LeMoyne-Owen College
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2009-07-08· cited 43×
• In Re Estate of Marks
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-09-06· cited 35×
• Nee v. Big Creek Partners
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-02-19· cited 32×
• Laschinski T. Emerson v. Oak Ridge Research, Inc. a/k/a Oak Ridge Realty Holding, Inc. and Nathaniel Revis
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-10-05· cited 20×
• Potter v. Ford Motor Co.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-06-21· cited 18×
• Plunk v. National Health Investors, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-06-07· cited 17×
• Baptist Memorial Hospital v. Argo Construction Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2009-07-29· cited 15×
• Tompkins v. Annie's Nannies, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-10-09· cited 14×
• Hensley v. CSX Transportation, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-04-03· cited 14×
• Anderson v. Mason
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-07-29· cited 13×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Eaton v. McLain
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-11-09· cited 375×
• Reynolds v. Ozark Motor Lines, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-31· cited 111×
• Long v. Mattingly
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1990-07-05· cited 76×
• State v. Wilson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-06-03· cited 26×