("Because the issue of the knowing and voluntary nature of the pleas [of the criminal defendant] is dispositive, the other numerous issues raised on appeal are pretermitted."); Boyd's Creek Enters., LLC v. Sevier Cty., 362 S.W.3d 600, 603 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2010); Braden v. Hall, 730 S.W.2d 329, 331 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1987). Our failure to do so results in dicta, not in binding precedent.
Id. (citing Cantrell, 376 S.W.2d at 482).Boyd's Creek Enterprises, LLC v. Sevier County, 362 S.W.3d 600, 604 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2010) (emphasis added). Because the statute provides for a trial de novo, the case is tried as if it were an original action in the trial court.