Legal Opinion
Linda Beard v. James William Branson
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided August 30, 2017No. M2014-01770-SC-R11-CVPublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · KirbyHolly Kirby, J.
in which Jeffrey S. Bivins, C.J., and Cornelia A. Clark, Sharon G. Lee, and Roger A. Page, JJ., joined.
We granted permission for this appeal to determine whether a surviving spouse who files a wrongful death lawsuit is acting as a legal representative of the decedent and whether a wrongful death lawsuit filed pro se by the surviving spouse is void ab initio based on the spouse’s pro se status. In this case, the decedent’s surviving spouse filed a pro se wrongful death health care liability lawsuit shortly before the one-year statute of limitations lapsed. After expiration of the…
3Cases cited47 opinions
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- Summers v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 2007
- Dorothy Johnson v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water Div.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2015
- Scott v. Ashland Healthcare Center, Inc.Tennessee Supreme Court · 2001
- Jordan v. Baptist Three Rivers HospitalTennessee Supreme Court · 1999
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4Cited by64 opinions
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