Legal Opinion
Kenneth E. King v. Anderson County, Tennessee
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided November 21, 2013No. E2012-00386-SC-R11-CVPublishedCited by 78 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · ClarkCornelia A. Clark, J.
in which JANICE M. HOLDER, WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., and SHARON G. LEE, JJ„ joined. GARY R. WADE, C.J., filed a dissenting opinion.
We granted permission to appeal in this case to decide whether, for the purpose of determining proximate cause, an assault on an inmate by another inmate is always reasonably foreseeable because penal institutions house dangerous individuals. The plaintiff sued for injuries allegedly suffered as a result of negligence on the part of the staff of the Anderson County Detention Facility in classifying and housing the plaintiff and in failing to release him in a…
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