Legal Opinion
Sims v. Memphis Processors, Inc.
District Court, W.D. Tennessee
Decided May 8, 1990No. 87-2790-TUAPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
TURNER, District Judge.
Presently before the court in this diversity action is the defendant’s motion for summary judgment pursuant to Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
The plaintiff Ben Sims, Jr. has filed this action alleging that the defendant is liable in negligence under Tennessee tort law for a failure to maintain its loading dock in a safe condition which resulted in injury to the plaintiff. Conversely, it is the position of the defendant Memphis Processors, Inc. that it did not have a duty to warn or protect the plaintiff against known…
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