Burton v. Carroll County

OPINION

CRAWFORD, P.J., W.S.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which HIGHERS and FARMER, JJ., joined.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, sued county and county’s volunteer fire department pursuant to Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act seeking damages for wife’s personal injuries and husband’s loss of consortium sustained while they were patronizing a “haunted house” operated by the volunteer fire department to raise funds. Plaintiffs allege that the defendants were negligent in (1) creating a dangerous and defective condition and failing to correct that condition; (2) failing to warn the…