Quinby v. Sprague

How courts have described this case

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• holding that parties that fail to properly raise an issue in the trial court waive their right to argue this issue for the first time on appeal
• holding that a party who did not properly raise an issue in the trial court had “waived his right to argue this issue for the first time on appeal”
• holding that Tennessee Code Annotated § 36-1-117(a) only requires “the legal guardians of a child [to] be joined as parties when their rights to the child are being terminated”
• holding that where a party did not properly raise an issue in the trial court, he waived his right to argue the issue for the first time on appeal
• determining that appellant’s issue was “‘late-raised [and] minimally addressed’” in the trial court, and therefore, appellant waived the issue on appeal
• explaining that a person’s acts may justifiably excuse the parent’s failure to visit “only if those acts actually prevent the parent from visiting the child or constitute a significant restraint or interference with the parent’s attempts to visit the child”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).