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· 5/6/1985

Lindsey v. Miami Development Corp.

Citations

  • 689 S.W.2d 856
  • 1985 Tenn. LEXIS 511

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding an expert’s testimony was “speculative” and therefore “inadmissible” to prove causation in a TPLA suit
  • concluding that, although the plaintiff “is not . . . required to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, [he must] . . . introduce evidence from which reasonable persons may conclude that it is more probable that the event was caused by the defendant than that it was not”
  • examining the limitation on duty of care evident in Tennessee’s Good Samaritan law
  • discussing this duty in the context of social hosts and guests
  • involving a host‟s duty to render aid to an injured guest
  • \[p]laintiff must introduce evidence which affords a reasonable basis for the conclusion that it is more likely than not that the conduct of the defendant was a cause in fact of the result.\

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Judges: Drowota, Cooper, Fones, Brock, Harbison

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