Kenner v. Kenner
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM SULLIVAN. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Sullivan County. — Hon. Hal H. Haynes, Judge Opinion 'on petition to Rehear
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Ohiee Justice Neil
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The point chiefly stressed is that by the decree in the Alabama suit the complainant was deprived of his property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, in that by it he was deprived of the services of his child, without having been made a party by personal service of process.
The contention, although put forward with the utmost seriousness, has nevertheless an element of unconscious humor; for it is impossible to perceive how a girl baby less than two years old can perform any…
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- McKelvey v. McKelveyTennessee Supreme Court · 1903
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