SHELBY COUNTY v. BARDEN


527 S.W.2d 124 (1975)

SHELBY COUNTY, Tennessee, et al., Petitioners-Respondents, v. Erlewood BARDEN and wife et al., Respondents-Petitioners.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

September 15, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Manire, William W. Dunlap, Jr., C. Cleveland Drennon, Jr., County Atty., Memphis, for petitioners-respondents.

George T. Lewis, Jr., Joseph A. Heffington, III, Memphis, for respondents-petitioners; Watson, Lewis & Knolton, Memphis, of counsel.


OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

These suits were instituted in the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Tennessee by Mr. and Mrs. Erlewood Barden as landowners and White Stone Company, Inc., a corporation, as tenant, for damages by reason of the closing of a county road. Named as defendants were Shelby County, certain of its officials, and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company. The suit was filed on July 9, 1970, within the one-year statute of limitations governing...

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