Lancaster v. Montesi

This appeal raises the single question of whether the wrongful acts of defendant, alleged in plaintiffs’ declaration, were the proximate cause of the deceased’s suicide.

The' deceased, Margaret Rodell Lancaster, allegedly the paramour of the appellee Louis F. Montesi, Sr., re*53ferred to herein as defendant, committed suicide by jumping from the Memphis-Arkansas bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 11, 1962. Her son, Thomas Paul Lancaster, and her mother, Mrs. Mary Ellen Easley, brought this action as next of kin for her alleged wrongful death under T.C.A. sec. 20-607.

In substance, the…