2020 Tennessee Code
Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings
Chapter 16 - Eminent Domain
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 29-16-104. Petition
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:
- The parcel of land or rights therein or incident thereto a portion of which is wanted, and the extent wanted;
- The name of the owner of such land or rights, or, if unknown, stating the fact;
- The object for which the land, etc., is wanted; and
- 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.
Code 1858, § 1326; Shan., § 1845; mod. Code 1932, § 3110; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-1404.
Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 10 Tenn. Juris., Eminent Domain, §§ 44, 47.
Law Reviews.
Civil Procedure and Evidence — Tennessee Survey 1970 (Jerry J. Phillips), 38 Tenn. L. Rev. 127.
Federal and State Condemnation Proceedings — Procedure and Statutory Background (William E. Miller), 14 Vand. L. Rev. 1085.
Real Property — Eminent Domain — Reversion Upon Misuse or Nonuse of Land by Condemning Authority, 36 Tenn. L. Rev. 71.
The Tennessee Court System — Circuit Court (Frederic S. LeClercq), 8 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 241.
Cited: Meighan v. U.S. Sprint Communs. Co., 924 S.W.2d 632, 1996 Tenn. LEXIS 264 (Tenn. 1996); Brandy Hills Estates, LLC v. Reeves, 237 S.W.3d 307, 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 794 (Tenn. Ct. App. Dec. 15, 2006).
