LANCASTER v. MONTESI


390 S.W.2d 217 (1965)

Thomas Paul LANCASTER and Mrs. Mary Ellen Easley v. Louis F. MONTESI, Sr.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.L. Pearson, Arthur J. Shea, Memphis, for Thomas Paul Lancaster and Mrs. Mary Ellen Easley.

John M. Heiskell, Memphis, of counsel, Montedonico, Boone, Gilliland, Heiskell & Loch, Memphis, for Louis F. Montesi, Sr.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal raises the single question of whether the wrongful acts of defendant, alleged in plaintiffs' declaration, were the proximate cause of the deceased's suicide.

The deceased, Margaret Rodell Lancaster, allegedly the paramour of the appellee Louis F. Montesi, Sr., referred to herein as defendant, committed suicide by jumping from the Memphis-Arkansas bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 11, 1962. Her son, Thomas Paul Lancaster, and her...

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