Anderson v. Latham Trucking Co.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

We limited the grant of plaintiff’s Rule Eleven application to the issue of whether evidence of a defendant’s financial condition is necessary or essential to sustain an award of punitive damages.

On 27 November 1983, plaintiff was preparing to move her disabled vehicle from the shoulder of Highway 27 in Scott County, Tennessee. Although plaintiff’s automobile was completely outside the white line demarking the outer edge of the highway, a tractor-trailer, which was passing another vehicle, struck plaintiff’s car. Plaintiff suffered personal injuries and incurred $3500 in…