66-11-132 - Consolidation of actions. - Tennessee Statutes

66-11-132. Consolidation of actions.

If separate actions to enforce liens provided by this chapter are brought in the same court, they shall be consolidated; and if in different courts, the actions may, upon application, be removed into the court, if a court of record, in which the first action was instituted, and there consolidated, unless the later action is one for the benefit of all lienors, in the nature of a lien-creditors' bill, in which event earlier actions not of that nature shall be consolidated into the lien-creditors' bill, on petition.

[Code 1858, § 3546; Shan., § 5309; mod. Code 1932, § 7950; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-1132; Acts 2007, ch. 189, § 31.]