Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-16-104

Petition

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Meighan v. U.S. Sprint Communications Co. (1996)

Most recently applied in State Ex Rel. Commissioner of the Department of Transportation v. Thomas (April 2010)

Code 1858, § 1326; Shan., § 1845; mod

How often courts cite this section

citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

The person seeking to appropriate such land shall file a petition in the circuit court of the county in which the land lies, setting forth, in substance:

(1) The parcel of land or rights therein or incident thereto a portion of which is wanted, and the extent wanted;

(2) The name of the owner of such land or rights, or, if unknown, stating the fact;

(3) The object for which the land, etc., is wanted; and

(4) A prayer that a suitable portion of land or rights may be decreed to the petitioner, and set apart by metes and bounds, or other proper mode.

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.