Metzger v. Wendler

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[t]he Tennessee rule on voluntary dismissals . . . is much more liberal than that obtaining in federal courts and in many other jurisdictions”
• stating that in a non-jury matter, the plaintiff has a right to a voluntary nonsuit “until the matter has been finally submitted to the court for determination on the merits”
• noting the defendants’ argument that “they had a vested right to preserve the record of the evidentiary hearing for appellate review” but concluding that they “had acquired no vested rights of any sort in the trial transcript, insofar as appellate review was concerned”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).