Oak Ridge Precision Industries, Inc. v. First Tennessee Bank National Ass'n

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

In this action for breach of contract and numerous allegations of tortious conduct, the Trial Judge dismissed the contract claims without prejudice, on the basis they were compulsory counter-claims in the pending Anderson County litigation, and granted summary judgment on the remaining action.

HISTORY OF THE CASE

Plaintiff was a tool and die manufacturing company in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Gilbert Galyon is the sole stockholder. In 1984, plaintiff entered a contract with Hurd Lock & Manufacturing Company (“Hurd”) to manufacture a machine to assemble door and ignition…