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· 6/13/1977

Brown v. Hipshire

Citations

  • 553 S.W.2d 570
  • 1977 Tenn. LEXIS 582

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a cross claim or counterclaim for affirmative relief must be filed before the statute of limitations expires because a claim “is not stripped of its character as an independent action by acquiring the label counterclaim”
  • same; but see Tenn. Code Ann. 28-1-114 providing that a counterclaim is not barred by statutes of limitations if it was not barred at the time the claims asserted in the complaint were interposed

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Judges: Fones, Cooper, Henry, Brock, Harbison

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