Legal Opinion

Lillienkamp v. Rippetoe

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1915PublishedCited by 44 opinions

PROM KNOX. Appeal from the Circuit Conrt of Knox County to the Conrt of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Conrt of Civil Appeals from the Snpreme Conrt.— Yon. A. Hueeakeb, Jndge.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Buchanan

The only question necessary to he decided is whether a divorced woman can maintain against her former hnshand an action for damages resulting from an assault and battery committed by him upon her person after the passage of chapter 26 of the Acts of 1913, and while they sustained toward each other the relation of husband and wife; the action having been instituted after the divorce, and within one year after the date of the battery.

The case is before us on plaintiff’s petition for cer-tiorari, seeking to reverse the judgment of the court of civil appeals, which affirmed the judgment of the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Thompson v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  2. Bandfield v. BandfieldMichigan Supreme Court · 1898
  3. Peters v. PetersCalifornia Supreme Court · 1909
  4. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. PritchettSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1898
  5. Strom v. StromSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1906

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3Cited by44 opinions

  1. Wait v. PierceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1926
  2. Courtney v. CourtneySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1938
  3. Fitzmaurice v. FitzmauriceNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1932
  4. Keister's Administrator v. Keister's ExecutorsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1918
  5. Davis v. DavisTennessee Supreme Court · 1983

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