Life & Casualty Ins. Co. of Tennessee v. City of Nashville

The plaintiff, Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee, sued the defendant City of Nashville, to recover damages to real property as the result of its changing the grade of Demonbreun Street in Nashville. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $500. Plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, based upon the inadequacy of the award, was overruled. Thereafter the defendant entered its motion in arrest of judgment upon the ground that the declaration did not state a cause of action. That motion was sustained and the suit dismissed. The Court of Appeals affirmed. This court…