Legal Opinion
Hutton v. City of Savannah
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided August 22, 1997No. 02A01-9612-CV-00314PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HIGHERS, Judge.
In this wrongful death action, Defendant City of Savannah appeals the trial court’s final judgment awarding $260,000 to Plaintiff/Appellee Bruce Hutton, administrator of the estates of his parents, Floyd and Lena Hutton. For the reasons hereinafter stated, we affirm the trial court’s judgment, but we modify the amount of the judgment.
On the morning of March 5, 1995, Floyd and Lena Hutton were killed in a car accident at the intersection of Highway 69 and Airport Road in Hardin County. The weather was cloudy and rainy that morning. Employees of the City of Savannah were…
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