Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County v. McKinney

OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

Defendants, James R. McKinney, Bobby D. Davis, and McKinney & Davis, a Tennessee partnership, have appealed from the trial court’s judgment awarding plaintiff, The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (Metro), the sum of $38,000.00, after finding that defendant James McKinney had made fraudulent misrepresentations regarding the amount of attorney’s fees that Metro had paid defendants for legal services in connection with the issuance of industrial revenue bonds.

The facts out of which this controversy arose are as follows:

In the early 1980’s Metro…