Legal Opinion

Caldwell v. Spicer McEvoy

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided July 20, 1929PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Mb. Justice. McKinney

delivered the opinion of the Court.

By a former bill complainant sought to enjoin the defendants from converting their dwelling, located in the resident section of Paris, into a funeral home, upon the theory that an undertaking establishment in a nuisance per se.

The Chancellor held otherwise and dismissed the bill, and his decree was affirmed by this court.

Thereupon the present bill was filed, and a fiat for an injunction obtained, upon allegations that defendants were undertaking to remodel said dwelling without first having obtained a building permit from the city,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State ex rel. Conner v. HerbertTennessee Supreme Court · 1912

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Stall v. City of KnoxvilleTennessee Supreme Court · 1963
  2. Frankland Carriage Co. v. City of JacksonTennessee Supreme Court · 1930
  3. Windrow v. StephensCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1937
  4. E. Jay Mounger v. Charles D. Mounger, Jr.Court of Appeals of Tennessee · 2012
  5. State ex rel. Karl F. Dean v. George L. VanHornCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 2005

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