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04/12/2021 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT JACKSON February 16, 2021 Session CORA M. HAYWOOD v. TREXIS INSURANCE CORPORATION ET AL. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Shelby County No. CT-5295-19 Yolanda R. Kight, Judge ___________________________________

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing, pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), 365 Mass. 754 (1974), his complaint asserting violation of the Massachusetts prevailing wage statute, G. L. c. 149, § 27 (Wage Act), and for quantum meruit.4 In essence, the plaintiff claims he was entitled to be paid according to a wage

PER CURIAM. For the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion by Judge Greene, the decision of the Court of Appeals is reversed and the case is remanded to the Court of Appeals for further remand to the Superior Court, Rutherford County, for proceedings not inconsistent with the dissenting opinion. REVERSED AND REMANDED.

ACCEPTED 08-20-00145-CV 08-20-00145-CV EIGHTH COURT OF APPEALS EL PASO, TEXAS

OPINION AND ORDER FUSTE, District Judge. Plaintiff Arturo Cora, a United States Postal Service (“Postal Service”) employee and union representative, pro se, filed this action against defendant Anthony Frank, Postmaster General of the United States, alleging a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 2000e-17. Specifically, plaintiff claims that he was denied o

Per Curiam. This is an appeal from the granting of a motion for summary judgment in an action against a municipality pursuant to General Statutes § 13a-149, the municipal highway defect statute. The trial court granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment after concluding that the statutory notice given to the municipality by the plaintiff was inadequate as a matter of law. After careful examinat

PER CURIAM. This cause having been orally argued before the Court, the briefs and record on appeal having been read and given full consideration, and the appellant having failed to demonstrate reversible error, the order of the lower court appealed from herein is affirmed. See Rieder v. Rieder, 157 So.2d 93 (Fla.App.1963), and Ludacer v. Ludacer, 211 So.2d 64 (Fla.App.1968). JOHNSON, C. J., and CARROLL, DONALD

PER CURIAM: Plaintiff Ely and wife spent a night in July, 1979 at the Empire Motor Lodge, owned by defendants Blevins. After his wife had used the tub, plaintiff showered in the combination shower and bath. Finishing, he turned off the cold water, and immediately sought to turn off the hot. The handle, however, “just spun ... around w

262 S.C. 141 (1974) 202 S.E.2d 859 Robert James ABRAMS and Cora T. Abrams, Appellants, v. H.J. WRIGHT and Gerald C. Wallace, Jr., d/b/a Seville Apartments of Greenville, S.C. Respondents. 19775 Supreme Court of South Carolina. February 20, 1974. *142 Messrs. McDonald, Cox & Stilwell, of Greenvil

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from rulings of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts construing a consent decree to apply to certain services now provided by the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (“DSS”), and binding DSS and its commissioner to the decree. We affirm. This ease began in 1973 when

114 F.Supp.2d 797 (2000) Robert A. WRIGHT and Deeann K. Wright, Plaintiffs, v. BROOKE GROUP LIMITED; Liggett & Myers, Inc.; Liggett Group Inc.; Philip Morris Incorporated (Philip Morris U.S.A.); Philip Morris Companies, Inc.; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; RJR Nabisco, Inc., Defendants. No. C99-3090. United States District Court, N.D. Iowa, Central Division. September 29, 2

169 F.Supp.2d 485 (2000) Leslie WRIGHT, Plaintiff, v. N.C. STATE UNIVERSITY, Defendant. No. 5:98-CV-644-BR3. United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Western Division. January 6, 2000. *486 Leslie Wright, Raleigh, NC, plaintiff pro se. Thomas O. Lawton, III, N.C. Dept. of Justice, Raleigh, NC, for NC State Univer

LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge: The Coral Way Pub of Miami, Florida was totally destroyed by fire in May 1975. Continental Casualty Co., the insurer, suspected arson by the lessee and refused to pay any claim on the loss. Subsequently the lessee of the restaurant, Cora Pub, Inc., instituted this action against Continental on the policy. Other parties having an interest in the property and insurance policy joined the action,

PER CURIAM. The District Court directed a verdict against plaintiff [appellant] at the close of plaintiff’s case, in favor of the individual defendants and the District of Columbia. The individual defendants were the owners of the building in front of which a sidewalk entrance to the cellar was covered by a door with hinges which pro

This is a suit brought by Cora Wagner Foster, plaintiff, against Mina Wright, administratrix de bonis non cum testamentoannexo of the estate of George Wagner, deceased, defendant. Defendant filed a plea in abatement alleging that she was not at the time of trial, nor on the date the suit was instituted, administratrix de bonis non cum testamento annexo of the estate of George Wagner, deceased. After receiving evidence in support of the plea the court sustained same

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge. Appealing from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict for AppelleesDefendants after a full-dress trial at which testimony from live swearers was heard, Appellants-Plaintiffs complain of the District Judge’s denial of their motion for new trial. More specifically Appellants urge that the testimony of Patro

BIGGS, Chief Judge. This suit has been before us on a prior occasion and its nature is fully described in our earlier opinion, Williams v. Murdoch, 3 Cir., 330 F.2d 745 (1964). It is an action brought by Mrs. Cora Hubbard Williams against her daughter, Mrs. Cora Williams Murdoch and Commonwealth Bank and Trust Company, co-guardians fo

Plaintiffs brought this action to set aside a deed upon the grounds of undue influence, fraud and nondelivery; also to quiet title to an undivided two-thirds interest in the property described in the deed. In her answer defendant denied specifically the allegations of the complaint, including those relating to plaintiffs' claim of ownership in the property, and in this behalf alleged affirmatively that she was the owner in fee of the whole of said real property. The prayer of the answer was t

An opinion in this cause was filed October 14, 1941 (see notation in 230 Iowa 1057), and is found in 300 N.W. 281. It reversed the trial court. A rehearing was granted, and on resubmission the decree of the trial court is affirmed and this opinion is substituted for the aforesaid opinion. On August 18, 1939, S.G. Boyles, the husband of the plaintiff, executed and delivered to the defendant a deed to a farm of 240 acr

The above-entitled causes, pending in the Superior Court of Durham County, before the clerk, were, without objection, consolidated for the hearing of a motion for the removal of R.H. Wright, Jr., and T. D. Wright, as executors of the last will and testament of R.H. Wright, deceased. On the facts found by the clerk at said hearing R.H. Wright, Jr., and T. D. Wright, who had theretofore duly qualified before said clerk as executors of the last will and testament of R.H. Wright, deceased,