Legal Opinion
Piana v. OLD TOWN OF JACKSON
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided February 6, 2009No. W2007-02832-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 15 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · StaffordJ. Steven Stafford, J.
in which ALAN E. HIGHERS, P.J., W.S., and DAVID R. FARMER, J., joined.
This is an wrongful death action arising under a theory of premises liability. Plaintiffs husband died as a result of injuries he sustained after tripping over a piece of concrete embedded in a dirt path. Plaintiff alleged that two of the defendants, who were under a separate maintenance contract with the owner of the property, failed to exercise the required due care in the maintenance, inspection, and repairs of the path. The trial court granted directed verdicts for both defendants after finding that neither owed…
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