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JEFF HURST v. CITY OF MORRISTOWN

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jul 8, 2025

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1: Benjamin K. Lauderback, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, City of Morristown.

Attorneys 2: W. Lewis Jenkins, Jr., Dyersburg, Tennessee, and F. Braxton Terry, T. Dillon Parker, and Gabriel C. Stapleton, Morristown, Tennessee, for the appellee, Jeff Hurst.

Judge(s): MCCLARTY

This is a Governmental Tort Liability Act (“GTLA”) case, Tennessee Code Annotated section 29-20-101, et seq., alleging negligent operation of a street sweeper by a city employee. The trial court denied the city’s claims of immunity and entered judgment after a nonjury trial, apportioning 51 percent fault to the city’s employee who was driving the street sweeper and 49 percent fault to the driver of the pickup truck that was involved in a collision with the sweeper. The city appealed. We affirm.

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