Tennessee § 16-1-116 - Transfer of actions or appeals.

§ 16-1-116. Transfer of actions or appeals.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule of court to the contrary, when an original civil action, an appeal from the judgment of a court of general sessions, or a petition for review of a final decision in a contested case under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, is filed in a state or county court of record or a general sessions court and such court determines that it lacks jurisdiction, the court shall, if it is in the interest of justice, transfer the action or appeal to any other such court in which the action or appeal could have been brought at the time it was originally filed. Upon such a transfer, the action or appeal shall proceed as if it had been originally filed in the court to which it is transferred on the date upon which it was actually filed in the court from which it was transferred. Acts 2000, ch. 794, § 1. Cited: Hawkins v. Tenn. Dep't of Corr., 127 S.W.3d 749, 2002 Tenn. App. LEXIS 536 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2002); Benson v. Herbst, 240 S.W.3d 235, 2007 Tenn. App. LEXIS 317 (Tenn. Ct. App. May 18, 2007); Ward v. Nat'l Healthcare Corp., — S.W.3d —, 2007 Tenn. App. LEXIS 695 (Tenn. Ct. App. Nov. 15, 2007); Williams v. City of Milan, — S.W.3d —, 2011 Tenn. App. LEXIS 67 (Tenn. Ct. App. Feb. 16, 2011); Burkhart v. City of Clarksville, — S.W.3d —, 2011 Tenn. App. LEXIS 161 (Tenn. Ct. App. Apr. 1, 2011); Suggs v. Gallaway Health Care Ctr., — S.W.3d —, 2011 Tenn. App. LEXIS 185 (Tenn. Ct. App. Apr. 18, 2011); Carbone v. Blaeser, — S.W.3d —, 2012 Tenn. App. LEXIS 780 (Tenn. Ct. App. Nov. 14, 2012).