Legal Opinion
Soper v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided April 23, 1996No. 3:95-0238PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
HIGGINS, District Judge.
The plaintiff, Kenneth Soper, originally filed this action in the Rutherford County. Circuit Court against the defendant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., alleging that Wal-Mart had been negligent in the maintenance of an automatic bug spraying device that was mounted on a pipe in an aisle at its store in Smyrna, Tennessee. This device emitted a spray that entered the plaintiffs eyes as he was walking down an aisle at this Wal-Mart store, causing significant damage to his eye.
The defendant, Wal-Mart, a Delaware corporation, with its principal place of business in…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- McIntyre v. BalentineTennessee Supreme Court · 1992
- Dickerson v. ColgroveSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
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