Petition

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Remedies and Special Proceedings
4. Eminent Domain
5. General Provisions
6. 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:

1. The parcel of land or rights therein or incident thereto a portion of which is wanted, and the extent wanted;
2. The name of the owner of such land or rights, or, if unknown, stating the fact;
3. The object for which the land, etc., is wanted; and
4. 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).

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