Burton v. Warren Farmers Cooperative

How courts have described this case

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

• “This court uses the familiar Tenn. R. App. P. 13(d) standard to review a trial court’s disposition of a Tenn. R. Civ. P. 41.02(2) motion[.]”
• Mutual assent “may be manifested, in whole or in part, by the parties’ spoken words or by their actions or inactions.”
• under Rule 41.02(2), the court “may dismiss the plaintiff’s claims if the plaintiff has failed to make out a prima facie case by a preponderance of the evidence.”
• res ipsa loquitor case; further holding the plaintiff “must present evidence that affords a rational basis for concluding that the negligent conduct that caused the injury is probably attributable to the defendant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).