Austin v. City of Memphis

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that sue and be sued language in the Chickasaw Basin Authority statute was not a waiver of sovereign immunity
• determining that the trial court’s instruction was proper based on the defenses relied upon by defendant, and the facts introduced in support thereof
• noting that “[w]here excluded testimony is not preserved in the record, the appellate court cannot consider an issue relating to the exclusion of same.”
• “The admissibility or exclusion of evidence rests within the sound discretion of the trial court which should be reversed only for abuse of that discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).