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DISPEKER v. NEW SOUTHERN HOTEL COMPANY

373 S.W.2d 904 (1963)

Mrs. Gertie S. DISPEKER v. The NEW SOUTHERN HOTEL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 5, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moss & Benton, Schneider, Schneider & Harris, Jackson, George O. Benton, Victor F. Schneider, Jackson, of counsel, for complainant.

William E. Leech, Franklin Murchison, Jackson, for defendant.

Gullett, Steele & Sanford, Nashville, W. Harold Bigham, Nashville, of counsel, amicus curiae, on behalf of Tennessee Hotel Ass'n.

FELTS, Justice.

This suit was brought in the Chancery Court of Madison County by Mrs. Gertie S. Dispeker against The New Southern Hotel of Jackson, Tennessee, for damages to her automobile caused when its employee, then off-duty, came onto its parking lot, and wrongfully misappropriated complainant's automobile by driving it away and later wrecking it.

The Chancellor dismissed the suit. The Court of Appeals reversed...

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