Legal Opinion
Jenkins v. SOUTHLAND CAPITAL CORP.
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided September 23, 2008No. W2007-01180-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 3 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · KirbyHolly M. Kirby, J.
in which, ALAN E. HIGHERS, P.J., W.S., joined; W. FRANK CRAWFORD, J., did not participate.
This is a consolidated wrongful death and personal injury case. In May 2002, three young boys walking beside the road were struck by a drunken driver in a residential subdivision. Two were killed, the third severely injured. The plaintiffs sued the developers of the subdivision, arguing that the absence of sidewalks in the area where the boys were walking was a cause of the accident. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the developers on grounds that the plaintiffs’ lawsuit was…
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