Betty v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal concerns a city’s liability for damages to a privately-owned dam caused by a rupture in one of its sewerage forced mains. The property owners filed suit in the Circuit Court for Davidson County after the city declined to pay for repairing the dam. A jury awarded the property owners $330,000 on their inverse condemnation claim. The trial court also awarded them $60,000 for their claims under the Governmental Tort Liability Act but merged its award into the jury’s verdict and entered a judgment for $330,000. The city has appealed, asserting that the evidence does…