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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE

AT JACKSON
Assigned on Brief April 24, 2008

ICE STORES, INC.
v.
GREGORY REIER HOLMES

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Madison County
No. C05-190 Roger A. Page, Judge

No. W2007-01552-COA-R3-CV - Filed November 25, 2008
This appeal involves the enforcement of a foreign judgment.  In 1997, the defendant pled nolo contendere to a criminal charge in a Texas court.  As a part of his sentence, the defendant was ordered to pay restitution.  The judgment of conviction listed the party to whom restitution should be paid. In 2005, the plaintiff corporation filed a lawsuit in Tennessee, seeking to enforce the Texas judgment. In his response, the defendant noted that the plaintiff corporation was not the party named in the Texas judgment to receive restitution from the defendant.  The plaintiff filed a motion for summary judgment, asserting that the entity listed in the Texas judgment to receive restitution was the plaintiff

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