Gross v. Nashville Gas Co.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Judge.

In this appeal from an adverse judgment in a personal injury action, plaintiffs-appellants John M. Gross and Wayne Adair challenge the trial court’s decisions on the admissibility of certain evidence and on certain jury instructions and urge this Court to judicially adopt the doctrine of comparative negligence for the State of Tennessee.

Appellants filed suit in this case to recover damages for injuries sustained when a fire broke out in a manhole where they were working as employees of South Central Bell Telephone Company, splicing a telephone cable with an acetylene…