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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT MEMPHIS January 23, 2008 Session MATTHEW THORNTON, ET AL. v. ALLENBROOKE NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER, LLC, ET AL. Direct Appeal from the Circuit Court for Shelby County No. CT-006784-05 James Russell, Judge No. W2007-00950-COA-R3-CV - Filed July 3, 2008 This appeal in

McCay, Judge. We think the argument of the plaintiffs in error, though very ingenious and elaborate, makes entirely too much of section 2253 of the Revised Code. It is not necessary, as we think, in this case to declare exactly how far that section changes the common law idea of a tenant. For myself, I am inclined to think it was only intended to declare that the case there put made a case of the relation of landlord and tenan

March 24, 1904. The opinion of the Court was delivered by Col. James H. Rion, of Fairfield County, in this State, departed this life on the 12th day of December, 1886. He left a last will and testament, dated the 1st day of April, 1882. In this last will and testament he had provided for his daughter, Mrs. Kitty Rion McMaster. By a codicil to his will, dated 24th October, 1883, she having died during his lifetime, he declared that all provisions in his will for said daughter are revoked.

Justice LOHR delivered the Opinion of the Court. [[Image here]] *18[[Image here]] *19This case involves the City of Thornton’s Northern Project, one of the largest municipal water projects to come before this court in recent memory. Thornton appeals, and various

ROSE, Justice. These consolidated appeals primarily concern the State Board of Control’s decision not to grant the Basin Electric Power Cooperative the right to transfer certain historic closed-basin return flows, as requested in Basin’s petition to change the use and point of diversion under certain acquired water appropriations. Basin’s petition, filed pursuant to § 41-3-104, W.S.1977 [§ 41-4.1, W.S.1957, 1975 Cum.Supp.],

Letton, J. This was an action in equity to restrain the defendants from ” restoring the waters of a natural watercourse, known as Shell creek, to their former channel. The flow had become diverted so as to abandon the natural channel, and by means of a ditch, known as the Bailey ditch, reached another ditch parallel to the line of the Union Pacific Railroad Company and close to its track. Shell creek rises in Boone county an

The Utah Copper Company, a corporation, brought this action against the Stephen Hayes Estate, Inc., a corporation, and others, to condemn the right to use certain lands in aid of mining. The lands desired by plaintiff are described in the complaint and throughout the record by metes and bounds and also by letters of the alphabet. Only the letters will be used herein. As the individual defendants are interested *Page 548 in the case only because they are t

MERRILL, Circuit Judge. This case involves the Central Valley project, an important undertaking of the Bureau of Reclamation in California’s Central Valley. Suit was brought by these appellees in 1947 to enjoin Bureau officials from the *342

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] *Page 102 REVERSED AND REMANDED. This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment in the sum of $5,000, based upon findings of fact and conclusions of law, which the circuit court entered in favor of the plaintiff. The complaint which instituted the action alleged that the plaintiff was induced

Mr. Justice Jackson delivered the opinion of the Court. We are asked to relieve the United States from six awards by the Court of Claims as just compensation for deprivation of riparian rights along the San Joaquin River *728in California caused by construction of Friant Dam, and its dependent irrigation system, as part of the Central Valley Project.

Opinion by Norcross, J. (after stating the facts) : The water law of 1913 contains ninety sections and was manifestly designed to be a comprehensive statute covering the water law of this state. Many of the provisions of the act are not questioned in these proceedings. Those sections only are attacked which authorize the state engineer to determine the relative rights of the appropriators of wat

142 F.Supp. 1 (1956) Everett G. RANK et al., Plaintiffs, v. (KRUG) UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants. The STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Complainant in Intervention, v. Everett G. RANK et al., Defendants in Intervention. The CITY OF FRESNO, a Municipal Corporation, Complainant in Intervention, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Defendants in Intervention. TRANQUILLITY IRRIGATION DISTRICT, a Public Corporation, Compla

39 Cal.Rptr.3d 189 (2006) 136 Cal.App.4th 674 STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD CASES. No. C044714. Court of Appeal, Third District. February 9, 2006. *199 Baker, Manock & Jensen, John L.B. Smith, Christopher L. Campbell, Glenn J. Holder, and Kathleen A. Meehan, Fresno, for Plaintiffs and Appellants Angela A

Potter, Justice. The Lovella Ditch, Reservoir and Irrigation Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Colorado, brought this proceeding in the District Court in Laramie County by filing a petition with the clerk of that court to condemn certain land situated in this state owned by the Grover Irrigation and Land Company, a corporation also organized under the laws of Colorado, for the purpose of locating