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· 12/11/1964

Cockburn v. Howard Johnson, Inc.

Citations

  • 385 S.W.2d 101
  • 215 Tenn. 254
  • 19 McCanless 254
  • 1964 Tenn. LEXIS 561

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that “[i]n Tennessee, a suit is subject to a plea in abatement 9 where there is pending another suit on the same subject.”
  • stating that “[i]n Tennessee, a suit is subject to a plea in abatement 9 where there is pending another suit on the same subject.”
  • “The defendants in these two cases are not identical but are in effect the same”
  • “The defendants in these two cases are not identical but are in effect the same”
  • where the Court found that the pri- or suit pending analysis applied, even though the defendants in the two cases were not identical, they were in effect the same

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Judges: Dyer

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