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All will begin at 3 p.m. and end at 5 p.m., with a happy hour to follow. http://www.tba.org/tennbaru    TODAY'S OPINIONS: Monday, October 24, 2005 Following this index are summaries of each case, including its name, first paragraph, author's name, and the names of attorneys for the parties of each opinion. 00 - TN Supreme Court 00 - TN Worker's Comp Appeals 01 - TN Supreme Court - Rules 04 - TN Court of Appeals 01 - TN Court of Criminal Appeals 00 - TN Attorney General Opinions 00 - Judicial Ethics Opinions 00 - Formal Ethics Opinions - BPR TBA members can get the full-text versions of these opinions three ways detailed below. All methods require a TBA username and password. If you have forgotten your password or need to obtain a password, you can look it up on-line at http://www.tba.org/getpassword.mgi Here's how you can obtain full-text version. We recommend you download the Opinions to your computer and then open them from there. Click the URL at end of each Opinion paragraph below. This should give you the option to download the original document. If not, you may need to right-click on the URL to get the option to save the file to your computer. Do a key word search in the Search Link area of TBALink. This option will allow you to view and save a plain-text version of the opinion. Browse the Opinion List area of TBALink. This option will allow you to download the original version of the opinion. Howard H. Vogel Knoxville, Tennessee Editor-in-Chief, TBALink SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE SUPREME COURT DISCRETIONARY APPEALS Court: TSC-Rules http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TSC_Rules/2005/ AT&T CORPORATION, NETWORK SYSTEMS DIVISION v. LOREN CHUMLEY, COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE, STATE OF TENNESSEE Court: TCA Attorneys: Larry D. Crabtree, Steven C. Douse, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, AT&T Corporation ö Network Systems Division. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Joseph F. Whalen, Associate Solicitor General; Stephen Nunn, Sr. Counsel, for the appellee, Loren Chumley, Commissioner of Revenue, State of Tennessee. Judge: CAIN AT&T sued the Commissioner of Revenue of Tennessee to recover sales tax paid on central office equipment for the years 1995 and 1996 asserting that the equipment qualifies for exemption as industrial machinery. Determining that the outcome of the case was controlled by AT&T v. Johnson, 2002 WL 3124708 (Tenn.Ct.App.2002), the Chancellor held that the industrial machinery exemption was not applicable. We affirm the judgment of the Chancellor. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/2005/att102405.pdf IN RE ESTATE OF JOSEPH OWEN BOOTE, JR. Court: TCA Attorneys: Andree Sophia Blumstein and William L. Harbison, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellees, Helen Boote Shivers and Linda Boote Gerritsen. Walter W. Bussart and Lee Bussart Bowles, Lewisburg, Tennessee, for the appellant, Martha M. Boote. Judge: KOCH This appeal involves a dispute stemming from an effort to probate a will and two codicils in solemn form. The testatorâs widow filed a petition to probate these instruments in solemn form in the Chancery Court for Marshall County. Prior to the entry of an order admitting the will and two codicils to probate, the widow discovered that a third codicil she believed to have been destroyed had, in fact, not been destroyed by her late husband or in his presence and that her late husbandâs lawyer had made a copy of this codicil before destroying it himself. Accordingly, she filed a petition for declaratory judgment seeking to admit the third codicil to the probate in solemn form along with the will and the other two codicils. Thereafter, the trial court entered an order admitting the will and the first two codicils to probate in solemn form without mentioning the declaratory judgment petition. The testatorâs daughters moved to dismiss the declaratory judgment petition, and the testatorâs widow filed a motion for postjudgment relief from the order admitting the will and the first two codicils to probate in solemn form. Following a series of hearings, the trial court dismissed the declaratory judgment petition and denied the motion for post-judgment relief. The testatorâs widow appealed. We have determined that the order admitting the will and the first two codicils must be vacated and the case remanded for further proceedings regarding the third codicil. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/2005/bootej102405.pdf MARTHA M. BOOTE v. HELEN BOOTE SHIVERS ET AL. Court: TCA Attorneys: Andree Sophia Blumstein and William L. Harbison, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellants, Helen Boote Shivers and Linda Boote Gerritsen. Walter W. Bussart and Lee Bussart Bowles, Lewisburg, Tennessee, for the appellee, Martha M. Boote. Judge: KOCH This appeal involves a challenge to an antenuptial agreement. Following the death of her husband, the decedentâs wife filed a petition in the Chancery Court for Marshall County to have her husbandâs will and two codicils admitted to probate in solemn form. She later discovered that a third codicil that would have dramatically increased her share of the estate had not been properly revoked. When the trial court rebuffed her efforts to have the third codicil admitted to probate, she filed a petition to dissent from the will and to seek an elective share of the estate and one yearâs support. The decedentâs daughters opposed the petitions based on an antenuptial agreement the wife had entered into with the decedent, and the wife challenged the enforceability of the antenuptial agreement. Following a bench trial, the court set aside the antenuptial agreement after finding that the decedentâs wife did not enter into the agreement knowledgeably and without duress. The decedentâs daughters appealed. We have determined that the antenuptial agreement is enforceable. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/2005/bootem102405.pdf GEORGE R. CALDWELL, JR., ET UX. v. PBM PROPERTIES Court: TCA Attorneys: Glenna W. Overton, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the Appellants, George R. Caldwell, Jr. et ux Angie R. Caldwell. Robert R. Davies, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the Appellee, PBM Properties. Judge: SWINEY George R. Caldwell, Jr. and Angie R. Caldwell (ãPlaintiffsä or ãMr. Caldwellä as appropriate) sued PBM Properties (ãDefendantä) for nuisance claiming that during Defendantâs development of Blue Grass Heights Subdivision (ãBlue Grassä), Defendant denuded the land altering water runoff and causing Plaintiffsâ property to flood. The case was tried before a jury and the jury found that Defendant was 100% liable to Plaintiffs for a temporary flooding nuisance. The jury awarded Plaintiffs $3,820.50 in damages. Plaintiffs appeal claiming that the evidence supported a finding of permanent nuisance, the nuisance had to be abated on Defendantâs property to be considered abated, and, the jury did not award the proper amount of damages. We affirm. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/2005/caldwellg102405.pdf STATE OF TENNESSEE v. RONALD ALLEN Court: TCCA Attorneys: Richard A. Spivey, Kingsport, Tennessee (on appeal), and Ivan Lilly, Assistant Public Defender(at trial), for the appellant, Ronald Allen. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General & Reporter; Renee W. Turner, Assistant Attorney General;Joe Crumley, District Attorney General; and Janet Hardin, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: WADE The defendant, Ronald Allen, was convicted of rape of a child. On appeal, this court affirmedthe conviction but modified the sentences, holding that enhancement factor (7), that the personal injuries inflicted upon the victim were particularly great, see Tenn. Code Ann. ¤ 40-35-114(7)(2003), was applied in violation of the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S. Ct. 2531 (2004). The state filed an application for permissionto appeal to our supreme court pursuant to Rule 11 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure. Our supreme court granted the application and remanded the case to this court forreconsideration by virtue of its opinion in State v. Gomez, 163 S.W.3d 632, 659 (Tenn. 2005). Based upon the holding in Gomez, the judgment of the trial court must be affirmed. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/2005/allenr102405.pdf   PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL! Feel free to forward this Opinion Flash on to anyone you know of with an e-mail address. GET A FULL-TEXT COPY OF AN OPINION! See the instructions at the beginning of this edition of Opinion Flash. JOIN THE TENNESSEE BAR ASSOCIATION! 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