Beaman v. Grooms
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM KNOX. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court.— Yon A Htjffakee, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
This is suit, for the alleged wrongful death of Raymond Grooms, a young man twenty-one years of age. who was drowned in a body of water known as .Bea-man’s Lake. The .owners and lessors of. the premises on which the lake was (the Beamans) and the ■ lessee thereof (Brown) were made defendants.
The gravamen of the action is negligence of defendants in the maintenance of the lake or pond while it was held out to and used by the public as a resort for bathing purposes. It is alleged, and the facts appear to be, that the lake was of uneven depths. Several feet from the bank there was a depth of…
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