Extraordinary Process

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The court is authorized, upon the filing of the bill, properly verified, in all proper cases, to grant attachments and injunctions, and appoint receivers to effect the ends of justice, and to make all such orders, rules, and decrees, according to the practice of a court of chancery, as may be necessary to accomplish the objects had in view.

Code 1858, § 3417 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 55, § 8; 1851-1852, ch. 172, § 1); Shan., § 5173; Code 1932, § 9344; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2813.

Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 7 Tenn. Juris., Corporations, § 91; 15 Tenn. Juris., Injunctions, § 16; 21 Tenn. Juris., Quo Warranto, § 4.

Cited: Fugate v. Holloway, 1 Tenn. Ch. App. 387 (1901); Slover v. Coal Creek Coal Co., 113 Tenn. 421, 82 S.W. 1131, 1904 Tenn. LEXIS 34, 106 Am. St. Rep. 851, 68 L.R.A. 852 (1904); Tennessee ex rel. Atchley v. Taylor, 169 F.2d 626, 1948 U.S. App. LEXIS 3399 (6th Cir. Ohio 1948); State ex rel. Southerland v. Greeneville, 201 Tenn. 133, 297 S.W.2d 68, 1956 Tenn. LEXIS 475 (1956); State ex rel. Wolfenbarger v. Moore, — S.W.3d —, 2010 Tenn. App. LEXIS 109 (Tenn. Ct. App. Feb. 12, 2010).


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