Pool v. State

OPINION

WILLIAM C. KOCH, Jr., Judge.

This appeal involves the death of a motorist whose vehicle was swept off a flooded highway bridge during a torrential rainfall. The administrators of the motorist’s estate filed a claim with the Tennessee Claims Commission asserting that state highway officials knew or should have known about the flooded condition on the bridge and negligently failed either to avert the flooding on the bridge or to warn motorists of the bridge’s unsafe condition. Following an evidentiary hearing, the claims commissioner entered judgment for the State because the claimants…