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McINTURFF v. WHITE

565 S.W.2d 478 (1976)

Kenneth E. McINTURFF, Petitioner-Plaintiff, v. R.L. WHITE, Milburn Rice, Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company and Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. d/b/a Clinchfield Railroad Company, Respondents-Defendants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied March 8, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lodge Evans, Roy C. Nelson, Allen & Nelson, Elizabethton, for petitioner-plaintiff.

H. Dennis Erwin, Erwin, Thomas E. Mitchell, Johnson City, for respondents-defendants.

OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff McInturff sued the railroad companies, three security officers, and P.O. Likens, Chief Engineering Officer, all employees of Clinchfield, for libel and false imprisonment. The first trial in 1971, resulted in a jury verdict for the plaintiff, following which the trial judge directed a verdict for the defendants on the libel count and granted a new trial on the count for false imprisonment. The libel count was based...

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