Brenda Kaye Thomas v. Johnny Wayne Thomas
02A01-9711-CH-00292
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge W. Frank Crawford
Trial Court Judge: Judge J. Steven Stafford

This appeal involves a petition to modify an award of alimony. Appellant, Johnny Wayne Thomas (Husband), appeals the order of the trial court denying Husband’s petition to modify by deletion an award of alimony in futuro awarded to Appellee, Brenda Kaye Thomas (Wife).

Greg Townshend v. Erin Blanding Bingham
02A01-9801-CV-00019
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge W. Frank Crawford
Trial Court Judge: Judge D'Army Bailey

This appeal involves a petition to modify child custody. Respondent-Appellant, Erin Blanding Bingham (Mother), appeals from the order of the trial court granting the petition to modify custody filed by Petitioner-Appellee, Thomas Gregory Townshend (Father).

Estate of Carlisa Toney. a minor, by next friend, parent and guardian, Vernioca M. Toney, Individually, v. Bill Cunningham, Mrs. Bill (Ardia) Cunningham, Percy L. Ward and Mrs. Percy L. (Mary) Ward
02A01-9801-CV-00005
Authoring Judge: Judge David R. Farmer
Trial Court Judge: Judge George H. Brown, Jr.

In this wrongful death action, the trial court granted a motion to quash process and dismiss complaint filed by Defendants Percy and Mary Ward. Additionally, the trial court granted a motion for summary judgment filed by Defendants Bill and Ardia Cunningham. Plaintiff Veronica Toney appeals the ruling of the trial court regarding the motion to quash process and dismiss complaint as well as the motion for summary judgment. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Myranda Brown, a minor, Candy Brown, a minor, and Sherry Mills, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of Myranda Brown and Candy Brown v. Jessica M. Chesor and Lisha D. Oaks
02A01-9806-CV-00174
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge W. Frank Crawford
Trial Court Judge: Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood

This appeal involves a suit for personal injuries and property damage resulting from an automobile accident. Plaintiffs-appellants, Myranda Brown (Brown), Candy Brown (Candy) and Sherri Mills (Mills) appeal the judgment on the jury verdict that awarded plaintiff Mills $922.00 in damages and awarded no damages for plaintiffs Myranda and Candy against defendants, Jessica Chessor (Jessica) and Lisha D. Oaks (Oaks).

In Re: Estate of J.B. Warren, Deceased
02A01-9806-CH-00156
Authoring Judge: Judge David R. Farmer
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor George R. Ellis

Respondent Anita W. Goode LeCornu (Respondent) appeals the trial court’s judgment admitting to probate the will of J. B. Warren, Jr. (Testator). We vacate the trial court’s judgment based upon our conclusion that the court erred in ruling that the Testator did not effectively revoke one of the will’s provisions.

Bechtel Construciton Co. v. Campbell
03S01-9712-CV-00145
Authoring Judge: William H. Inman, Senior Judge
Trial Court Judge: Hon. L. Marie Williams,
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. _ 5-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting to the Supreme Court of findings of fact and conclusions of law. The issue in this case is whether the evidence preponderates against the finding of the trial court that the employee did not suffer a compensable injury or an aggravation thereof within the purview of the workers' compensation laws. Review of the findings of fact made by the trial court is de novo upon the record of the trial court, accompanied by a presumption of the correctness of the finding, unless the preponderance of the evidence is otherwise. Tenn. Code Ann. _ 5-6-225(e)(2);Stone v. City of McMinnville, 896 S.W.2d 548, 55 (Tenn. 1995). The employee initially alleged that she suffered a job-related accident while employed as an apprentice pipe fitter at the TVA Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in Hamilton County on May 14, 1996. This theory was essentially abandoned after the proof was closed, and the employee was permitted to amend her counter- complaint by alleging a gradual injury involving cervical and shoulder pain. Ms. Campbell was initially employed in August, 1995. She was laid off in May, 1996, but was on furlough for two months during her brief employment. She testified that on May 14, 1996, while relaxing during a lunch break, pain developed in her left forearm. Three days later she was laid off due to a reduction in force, and applied for and received unemployment benefits, after certifying to her union that she was able to work. On June 6, 1996, she was injured in an automobile accident, and reported to the treating chiropractor that she had neck and shoulder complaints, not job-related. She did not pursue further chiropractic treatment because "it would mess up her compensation claim." 2

Denise Stavropoulos v. Saturn Corporation
01S01-9711-CV-00251
Authoring Judge: William H. Inman, Senior Judge
Trial Court Judge: Hon. Jim T. Hamilton,
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. _ 5-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting to the Supreme Court of findings of fact and conclusions of law. Denise Stavropoulos (employee), suffered bilateral hand numbness and later severe neck pain with no identifiable precipitating event. Massive cervical disc herniation was diagnosed and corrective surgery was performed. The trial court found the condition to be work-related and awarded 9 percent permanent partial vocational disability, in lump sum, and temporary total disability benefits, set off by group disability benefits which had been paid as of the date of trial. Employee is 42 years old and has a high school education. After 14 years' work as a sewing machine operator and press operator for General Motors in Michigan, she began working for Saturn Corporation (employer) in 1992 as an Inventory Management team member. Her duties included operating a forklift truck with an overhead computer screen and reaching up to the computer to enter data about the work that was being performed. She had been treated by a therapeutic masseuse on two occasions in November 1995, for tension, headaches, and mild thoracic stiffness. On November 15, 1995, the masseuse found tight levator, rhomboid and supraspinous muscles, i.e., the muscles surrounding the shoulder blades and cervical spine. She performed an hour-long "myofacial release technique" to the shoulder blades and cervical spine, with good results.1 The employee first noticed numbness in her hands during the second week of July, 1996, and does not recall any precipitating event. She testified that the 1 Performed to treat inflammation where the muscle is attached to the bone. The Sloane-Dorland Annotated Medical-Legal Dictionary, West Publishing, 1987. 2

State of Tennessee vs. James Robert Fields - Concurring
02C01-9709-CC-00341
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Gary R. Wade
Trial Court Judge: Judge Julian P. Guinn

I agree that the conviction should be affirmed. Assault is not a lesser included or lesser grade offense of statutory rape. I disagree, however, with footnote 3 which suggests that a special request by the defendant for an instruction on a lesser offense would serve to amend the indictment. See State v. Leland Ray Reeves, No. 01C01-9711-CR-00515 (Tenn. Crim. App., at Nashville, Mar. 23, 1999).

Hite vs. Glazer Steel
03A01-9808-CV-00256

B&H Investments, Inc., v. James W. Brooks
W1999-01252-COA-R3-CV
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Alan E. Highers
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Joe C. Morris

This appeal arises from a dispute regarding whether Plaintiff B& H was entitled to a deficiency judgment following a foreclosure sale of Defendants' property. Despite Defendant Brooks' counter-claim of fraud in the sale, the court found that Plaintiff was entitled to a deficiency judgment. Defendant Brooks' motion for new trial or for an amendment of the findings of fact was denied. Brooks appeals this denial.

Lois Winbush vs. Thomas Winbush
02A01-9809-CH-00248
Trial Court Judge: Joe C. Morris

State vs. McMahan
03C01-9707-CR-00262
Trial Court Judge: Mary Beth Leibowitz

State vs. Billy Barnett
03C01-9712-CR-00546

Zachary Robinson vs. State
03C01-9804-CR-00166
Trial Court Judge: Ray L. Jenkins

Fideltity and Casualty Company of New York, v. Gregory Entertainment, Inc.
01-A-0-9804-CH00203
Authoring Judge: Judge Patricia J. Cottrell
Trial Court Judge: Judge Henry Denmark Bell

The primary issue in this case is whether the trial court should have granted Plaintiff's motion to amend its complaint to correct deficiencies that were raised by Defendant in a motion for judgment on the pleadings. Plaintiff disputes that the Complaint is deficient, but requested to be allowed to amend the Complaint by attaching discoverable documents that would have been introduced at trisl. We are of the opinion that leave to amend should have been granted.

Jaco vs. Dept. of Health, Bureau of Medicaid
01A01-9806-CH-00324
Trial Court Judge: Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr.

01A01-9807-CH-352
01A01-9807-CH-352

State vs. Joseph Martin Thurman
01C01-9706-CC-00231

01C01-9802-CR-00069
01C01-9802-CR-00069

State vs. James G. Frazier
01C01-9804-CR-00179
Trial Court Judge: Frank G. Clement, Jr.

State vs. Samuel Kimoe Robinson
01C01-9803-CC-00153
Trial Court Judge: William B. Cain

Joann Mooney vs. Joe Sneed
02A01-9709-CV-00210
Trial Court Judge: D'Army Bailey

State vs. Sean A. Taylor
01C01-9803-CR-00124

State vs. Stanley E. Terry, Jr.
01C01-9803-CC-00140
Trial Court Judge: David G. Hayes

Ricky J. Summers vs. State
01C01-9708-CC-00323