In judicial districts that have a separate circuit and chancery court or in districts that have more than one (1) division of circuit or chancery court, if a civil cause of action is filed in the improper court or the improper division of court within the judicial district, upon the motion of either party, or upon the court's own motion, the civil cause of action may be transferred to the proper court or proper division within such district.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-2-107
Transfer of cause of action
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Flowers v. Traughber (1995)
Most recently applied in Flowers v. Traughber (July 1995)
Acts 1991, ch. 265, § 1.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.