HAGGARD v. AGUILAR

No. 2009-02452-COA-R3-CV.

TAMMY L. HAGGARD, v. SANTOS AGUILAR, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

Filed December 7, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dudley W. Taylor, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Tammy L. Haggard.

Santos Aguilar, Sevierville, Tennessee, pro se appellee.1

Stephen C. Daves, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellee, John P. Doyle.

John W. McClarty, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Herschel P. Franks, P.J., and Charles D. Susano, Jr., J., joined.


OPINION

JOHN W. McCLARTY, JUDGE.

This appeal involves the question of whether the trial court properly dismissed Plaintiff's action when another related lawsuit, filed prior to this Hamblen County Chancery Court action, was pending in Knox County Chancery Court. We hold that the trial court properly dismissed Plaintiff's action under the prior suit pending doctrine. Accordingly, we affirm.

I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND

Santos Aguilar, through his...

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