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Procedure And Evidence -- 1955 Tennessee Survey, Edmund M. Morgan
Procedure And Evidence -- 1955 Tennessee Survey, Edmund M. Morgan
Vanderbilt Law Review
Demurrer: Demurrers are not favored in Tennessee. The pleading to which a demurrer is interposed is construed most favorably to the pleader. For the purpose of determining the sufficiency of a pleading all properly pleaded allegations are upon demurrer taken to be true; in the usual phrasing, they are said to be admitted. Although Tennessee courts, like all others, declare that a demurrer does not admit a conclusion of law, they sometimes let it come perilously close to doing so. Thus, in an action by a bailee against his bailor for failure to return chattels in the condition in which …