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· 8/30/1976

Browder v. Pettigrew

Citations

  • 541 S.W.2d 402
  • 1976 Tenn. LEXIS 547

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that in order to establish a product liability claim, the plaintiff must “trace the injury to some specific error in construction or design of the [product]”
  • holding that in order to establish a product liability claim, the plaintiff must “trace the injury to some specific error in construction or design of the [product]”
  • establishing that a product is defective under the statute requires proof, “in a general sense and as understood by a layman, that ‘something was wrong’ with the product”
  • any material fact in a negligence case “may be proven by direct evidence, circumstantial evidence, or a combination of direct and circumstantial evidence.”
  • collapse of the frame supporting a vehicle’s wheel

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Judges: Cooper, Fones, Henry, Brock, Harbi-Son

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