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- Title: John M. Gross and Wayne Adair v. Nashville
- Author : Middle Section Court of Appeals of Tennessee
- Release Date : January 29, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 85 KB
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DROWOTA, Judge. OPINION 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 torch. Appellants
contended the fire resulted from the combustion of natural gas which had leaked into the manhole. Appellants sued appellee
Nashville Gas Company for $50,000.00 compensatory damages for John M. Gross and $150,000.00 compensatory damages for Wayne
Adair. Prior to trial of this case, appellants amended their complaint, claiming compensatory damages of $65,000.00 for Gross
and $275,000.00 for Adair, and claiming in addition $250,000.00 punitive damages against appellee.
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