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Supreme Court of Tennessee / Joined 1943 / Served to 1954

Frank H. Gailor

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Frank H. Gailor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1892–1954
Tenure: 1943–1954 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine

Judicial Record

In our data, Gailor authored 265 published opinions for the court (1943–1954), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hoover Motor Exp. Co. v. Railroad & Public Utilities Commission (129 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 107 of these were attributed to Gailor by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1953	Hoover Motor Exp. Co. v. Railroad & Public Utilities Commission	261 S.W.2d 233	129
1950	Holloway v. Bradley	230 S.W.2d 1003	101
1948	Dale v. Thomas H. Temple Co.	208 S.W.2d 344	90
1945	Osborn v. City of Nashville	185 S.W.2d 510	80
1950	Beasley v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.	229 S.W.2d 146	73
1949	Turner v. State†	188 Tenn. 312	73
1945	Mullendore v. State	191 S.W.2d 149	63
1944	Corlew v. State· Dissent	180 S.W.2d 900	60
1952	Young v. Smith	246 S.W.2d 93	56
1944	Home Beneficial Ass'n v. White	177 S.W.2d 545	51
1953	City of Knoxville v. Brown· Dissent†	260 S.W.2d 264	45
1949	State ex rel. Loser v. National Optical Stores Co.†	189 Tenn. 433	45
1945	Gulf, M. O.R. Co. v. Underwood	187 S.W.2d 777	43
1952	Shutt v. Blount	249 S.W.2d 904	41
1944	Pass v. State	184 S.W.2d 1	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 273 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Frank H. Gailor on?: Frank H. Gailor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

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10 years on the Supreme Court of Tennessee. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).