Cockrum v. State

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal involves an inmate who committed suicide while incarcerated at the De-berry Correctional Institute. Her husband filed a claim with the Tennessee Claims Commission alleging that negligent supervision was the proximate cause of his wife’s death. The claims commissioner denied the claim, finding that the inmate’s suicide was, as a matter of law, the intervening, superseding cause of her death and alternatively that the institution’s supervision of the inmate was not negligent. The inmate’s husband has appealed, asserting that her suicide was foreseeable and that…