First National Bank v. Planters National Bank

Mr. Chiek Justice Green delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an application for certiorari and supersedeas directed to an order of the Court of Appeals discharging a supersedeas issued by a member of that court which was directed to an order of the Chancery Court of Shelby County dissolving an injunction issued in favor of the complainant herein. (1) It is obvious from an inspection of the pleadings that this cause must be finally determined upon issues of fact. Appellate jurisdiction thereof is accordingly in the Court of Appeals. State of Georgia v. City of Chattanooga, 153 Tenn., 349. (2) Section 14 of1 chapter 109 of the Acts of 192’5, which Act created the Court of Appeals, and section 8 of chapter 82 of the Acts of 1907, which Act created the Court of Civil Appeals, alike provide that this court can reach a case properly brought to the intermediate court only by the writ of certiorari and only then after final decree of that court. This court is without power to review the interlocutory orders of the other court in cases construing the Court of Civil Appeals Act and the reasoning of these decisions applies with equal forcejo the Court of Appeals Act. Walker v. Lemma, 129 Tenn., 444; Sharp v. Rose, 130 Tenn., 228; Burns v. City of *52 Nashville, 132 Tenn., 429; State ex rel. v. Alexander, 132 Tenn., 439. Cockrill v. Peoples Saving's Bank, 155 Tenn., 342, is not in point. That was a case of which this court had immediate appellate jurisdiction (no issue of fact being’ involved) and the writ of certiorari issued directly to the chancery court. (3) We were careful to point out, pag*e 346, that the Court of Appeals had no jurisdiction and that the application to a member of that court for certiorari and supersedeas, which was denied, might “be disregarded as ill-advised and without effect.” For the reasons stated, the petition for the writs of certiorari and supersedeas must be denied.