Legal Opinion
Brown v. Crown Equipment Corp.
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided October 27, 2005No. W2002-02228-SC-R11-CVPublishedCited by 132 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · HolderJanice M. Holder, J.
in which WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., and FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, E. RILEY ANDERSON, and ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., JJ., joined.
We granted appeal in this products liability action to determine whether the trial court erred in excluding as unreliable the testimony of the plaintiffs’ two expert witnesses, a mechanical engineer and a biomechanical engineer, and thereafter granting a directed verdict in favor of the defendant. We hold that the trial court erred in applying the nonexclusive list of reliability factors set out in McDaniel v. CSX Transportation, Inc., 955 S.W.2d 257 (Tenn.1997). These…
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