Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 27-6-101 (2026)
Right to writ
✓ current as of May 2026
A writ of error lies from the final judgment of the court of general sessions to the circuit or proper appellate court, and from the circuit and chancery court to such appellate court, in all cases where an appeal in the nature of a writ of error would have lain.
Code 1858, § 3176 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, §§ 37, 65, 67; 1827, ch. 50, § 1); Shan., § 4911; mod. Code 1932, §9063; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 27-601.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1984–2020 · leading case: Haynes v. McKenzie Mem'l Hosp., 667 S.W.2d 497 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1984).
Haynes v. McKenzie Mem'l Hosp., 667 S.W.2d 497 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1984). “See T.C.A. § 27-6-101 et seq. We hold that Appellate review by such procedure no longer exists.”
David New v. Lavinia Dumitrache (Tenn. Ct. App. 2019). “” Tenn. Code Ann. § 27-6-101 . And unlike proceedings of circuit or chancery courts, no rule abolishes writs of error as a mechanism for review of the decisions of general sessions courts.”
David New v. Lavinia Dumitrache (2020). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 27-6-101 (2017). The second statute states that a party wishing to appeal has sixty days from the date of the general sessions court’s judgment to apply for a writ of error.”
Ronnie Bradfield v. City of Memphis (Tenn. Ct. App. 1999). “1 In support of Bradfield’s “Writ of Error and/or in the Alternate [sic] Motion to Set Aside the Judgment of Dismissal,” Bradfield cites Tenn. Code Ann. § 27-6-101 , T.R.C.P. 59 and 60.”
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