Legal Opinion
Byrd v. Hall
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided January 19, 1993PublishedCited by 1,901 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DROWOTA, Justice.
The sole issue presented in this tortious interference with employment case concerns the proper standard to be applied when evaluating a motion for summary judgment under Rule 56 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure. Jan Byrd, Plaintiff-Appellant, appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Scott County granting summary judgment to Dr. Thomas Hall, Dr. Maxwell Huff, and Dr. David Coffey, Defendants-Appellees. We granted the Plaintiffs Rule 11 application in order to establish a clearer and more coherent summary judgment jurisprudence in view of the increased…
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