Steinhouse v. Neal

OPINION

We granted Defendants-Appellants’ Rule 11 Application for Permission to Appeal in order to determine whether the time limit to appeal an action from General Sessions Court, by an unsuccessful party in an unlawful detainer action, is 2 days or 10 days.

Plaintiff-Appellee, John Steinhouse, brought this action in the General Sessions Court of Davidson County and alleged that the Defendants “were unlawfully detaining certain lands to which Plaintiff was entitled *626to possession.” Judgment was entered in the General Sessions Court on June 12, 1985, restoring Plaintiff to the possession of the…