Legal Opinion

Combs v. City of Elizabethton

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided October 11, 1930PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Green

This is a damage suit, dismissed on demurrer, and the plaintiff has appealed.

The substance of the declaration is that a policeman and agent of the City of Elizabethton stopped the car in which the plaintiff was riding with her husband ‘ ‘ and alleged that her said husband was drunk or drinking and advised that he would take said husband to jail;” that she remonstrated and that the policeman slapped her in the face with his hand and took her to jail where she remained the remainder of the.day, that night, and was released the next morning without any charge being preferred against her; that by…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Johnson City v. WolfeTennessee Supreme Court · 1899
  2. Davis v. KnoxvilleTennessee Supreme Court · 1891

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Scates v. Board of Com'rs of Union CityTennessee Supreme Court · 1954
  2. Coffman v. City of PulaskiTennessee Supreme Court · 1967
  3. Mayor and Aldermen of Town of Morristown v. InmanCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1960
  4. Johnson v. City of JacksonTennessee Supreme Court · 1952
  5. Bobo v. City of KentonTennessee Supreme Court · 1948

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