Legal Opinion
Usher v. CHARLES BLALOCK & SONS, INC.
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided June 30, 2010No. E2009-00658-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHARLES D. SUSANO, Jr., J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court,
in which HERSCHEL P. FRANKS, P.J., and D. MICHAEL SWINEY, J., joined.
Reginald Smith (“the Decedent”) died when the exposed metal edge of a device known as a “Guardrail Energy-Absorbing Terminal” (“the crash cushion”) penetrated the window of the cab of his moving overturned tractor-trailer and cut him nearly in half. His son, Reginald Denard Usher (“the plaintiff’), filed this action in the trial court against Charles Blalock & Sons, Inc. The plaintiff also filed a claim against the State with the Tennessee Claims…
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