Youngblood v. Clepper

OPINION

CANTRELL, Judge.

In this action against a sergeant in the Tennessee Highway Patrol for negligently directing traffic, the trial judge granted summary judgment to the defendant. We affirm on the ground that the defendant is immune from suit under the qualified immunity granted to state officers performing discretionary functions.

I

On August 12, 1984, Sergeant Ray Clep-per was called from his home in Kimball to assist in working a fatal accident on the interstate going east down Monteagle Mountain. The officers already on the scene had stopped the eastbound traffic at the top of the…