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← 204 TENN 620 - White v. Adams

White v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

1959

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 1961
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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  1. ““Errors reached by writ. — The relief embraced in this chapter is confined to errors of fact occurring in proceedings of which the person seeking relief has had no notice, or which he was prevented by disability from showing or correcting, or in which he was prevented from making defense by surprise, accident, mistake, or fraud, without fault on his part. ’ ’”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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