Legal Opinion
Andrew Spencer v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided August 29, 2014No. E2012-01204-SC-R11-CVPublishedCited by 7 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · WadeGary R. Wade, C.J.
in which JANICE M. HOLDER, CORNELIA A. CLARK, WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.
The plaintiff, who was injured while pulling a switch for his employer, Norfolk Southern Railway, filed suit for negligence under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant railroad. The Court of Appeals, ruling that the trial court had provided an erroneous jury instruction, reversed the jury verdict and granted the plaintiff a new trial. Because we find that the instruction qualifies as “substantially accurate” in the context of the…
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