Glover v. Hardeman County’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “In Texas Co. v. Aycock, (June 1950), 190 Tenn. 16 , 227 S.W.2d 41, 46 , the court considered what constituted notice under the law of Tennessee.- There the court stated: In our State, as far back as the case of Woodfolk v. Blount, 4 Tenn. 147, 151 , 9 Am.Dec. 736, it was held: “When anything appears which would put a man of ordinary prudence upon inquiry, the law presumes that such inquiry was actually made, and therefore fixes the notice upon him as to all legal consequences” .... In Covington v. Anderson, 84 Tenn. 310, 319 , the rule is thus stated: “The rule upon the question of notice is, that whatever is sufficient to put a person upon inquiry, is notice of all the facts to which that inquiry mil lead, which prosecuted with reasonable diligence and in good faith.” (Emphasis supplied.) If the rule were not as stated by the cases to which reference has just been made, a reward would often result by declining to make inquiry about a matter as to which a party was given notice. This is emphasized in the quotation from 21 Am. & Eng.Ency. of Law (2 Ed.), 584 made in the case of War Finance Corp. v. Ready, 2 Tenn.App. 61, 67 . That quotation is: “Means of knowledge with the duty to using them are deemed equivalent to knowledge itself, and passive good faith will not serve to excuse wilful ignorance.” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bradford v. City of Clarksville