Cummings v. Beeler

Decided October 10, 1949. Alan M. Prewitt wrote the opinion for the court.

189 Tenn. 151 · Cited 75 times

Authorship attributed by a unique court + date + surname match against our roster (CourtListener recorded no author id for this opinion); verify against the official text. How we match.

Official text

Read the full opinion (CourtListener)

We don’t host opinion text or publish a summary of this ruling — read the official public-domain text for the court’s holding and reasoning, and verify against the primary source.

Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Hodges v. Hamblen County · 277 S.W. 901
• Buena Vista Special School Dist. v. Board of Election Com'rs · 116 S.W.2d 1008
• Tennessee Eastern Electric Co. v. Hannah · 12 S.W.2d 372

Cited by

Later opinions in our collection that cite this decision.

• Illustration Design Group, Inc. v. McCanless · 454 S.W.2d 115
• Snow v. City of Memphis · 527 S.W.2d 55
• West v. Carr · 370 S.W.2d 469
• Church Of God In Christ, Inc. v. L. M. Haley Ministries, Inc. · 531 S.W.3d 146
• State v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. · 18 S.W.3d 186
• Steven Waters v. Reagan Farr, Commissioner of Revenue for the State of Tennessee · 291 S.W.3d 873
• Wichita County v. Robinson · 155 Tex. 1
• Jack's Cookie Corp. v. Giles County · 219 Tenn. 131
• Wheeler v. Bullington · 87 So. 2d 27
• Hogue v. Kroger Company · 373 S.W.2d 714
• Harvey v. Ridgeway · 450 S.W.2d 281
• Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. v. Hammond · 290 S.W.2d 860
• Memphis Publishing Company v. City of Memphis · 513 S.W.2d 511
• State v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. · 319 S.W.2d 90
• City of White House v. Whitley · 979 S.W.2d 262
• Williams v. Kaylor · 129 S.E.2d 791
• Estate of Bell v. Shelby County Health Care Corp. · 318 S.W.3d 823
• Allstate Insurance Co. v. Firemen's Insurance Co. · 415 P.2d 553
• Paty v. McDaniel · 547 S.W.2d 897
• Southern Railway Company v. Fowler · 497 S.W.2d 891
• Wichita County v. Robinson · 276 S.W.2d 509
• Mills v. Shelby County Election Commission · 218 S.W.3d 33
• Chenault v. Carter · 332 S.W.2d 623
• Norman v. Tennessee State Board of Claims · 533 S.W.2d 719
• Burkett v. Ashley · 535 S.W.2d 332

Explore from here

Alan M. Prewitt’s Judicial Record · Tenn. · How we source opinions

Source: opinion metadata, authorship, and citation counts from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data (public domain). Data last verified 2026-07-09. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).