LEGGETT v. CROSSNOE


336 S.W.2d 1 (1960)

Garland H. LEGGETT, Administrator of the Estate of Linda Carol Leggett, Deceased, v. Lloyd Harris CROSSNOE and Mary Frances Crossnoe.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 4, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd S. Adams, Jr., Adams & Adams, Humboldt, for plaintiff in error.

Pierce Winningham, Jr., Jackson, for defendants in error.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

This is a tort action wherein the sustaining of the plea in abatement on stipulated facts resulted in the dismissal of the suit and this appeal in error by the original plaintiff.

On July 17, 1958, Thomas N. Crossnoe, seventeen years of age, while driving an automobile belonging to Mrs. Billy Laman, who was not in the car, on a public highway in Crockett County, ran down, and killed, twelve year old Linda Carol Leggett. Her administrator...

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