Turner v. N. C. & St. L. Railway

There are two questions involved in this lawsuit. The first is whether or not we should change the rule of statutory construction, adopted by this Court in Reed v. Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. R. Co., 136 Tenn. 499, 190 S. W. 458, 459, of Code Section, Williams’ Annotated Code, Sec. 8572. The second question is whether or not there has been such fraudulent concealment'of necessary and pertinent facts on the part of the Railroad Company as would authorize the present action.

Mrs. Turner filed this suit on October 5, 1954, for herself and her two minor children suing the Railroad Company for…