Legal Opinion
Overstreet v. Shoney's, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided June 4, 1999PublishedCited by 343 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WILLIAM C. KOCH, Jr., Judge.
This appeal involves a freakish accident in which a shard from a broken dinner plate caused a restaurant patron to lose the sight in her left eye. The patron and her husband filed suit against the waitress who dropped the plate and the restaurant in the Circuit Court for Putnam County seeking damages for her injuries and for his loss of consortium. Following a three-day trial, the jury awarded the patron $2,013,000. On this appeal, the restaurant takes issue with several of the trial court’s evidentiary rulings, the trial court’s verdict form, and the trial…
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