DOWLEN v. FITCH


266 S.W.2d 357 (1954)

DOWLEN v. FITCH et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

April 20, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. J. Boyd, Ashland City, for plaintiff in error.

H. Francis Stewart and Watkins & McGugin, Nashville, for defendants in error.


WELDON B. WHITE, Special Justice.

A petition to rehear has been filed by the defendants in error, complaining that the Court erred in holding that Chapter 34 of the Public Acts of 1953 was applicable to causes of action "which were in esse at the time of the effective date of this act". It is stated there is nothing in the act "either plainly expressed or necessarily implied" which gives to the Court the power to hold that said act applies to substantive causes of...

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