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JONES v. L & N R. CO.

617 S.W.2d 164 (1981)

Dudley P. JONES and Thelma Jones, d/b/a Dairy King; Oliver Pass, d/b/a Kopy-Kat Printers; Dudley E. Blair, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The L & N RAILROAD CO., et al., Defendants, and State of Tennessee, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Middle Section.

Permission to Appeal Denied May 26, 1981.

Abridged Opinion June 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crawford, Ozment & Bolin by Elliott Ozment, Nashville, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Donald Schwendimann & Don Corlew, Asst. Attys. Gen., Nashville, for defendant-appellant.

Dobson, Harris, Robinson & Aden by Tyree B. Harris, Peter H. Curry, Howell & Fisher by John Branham, Nashville, McKinney & Everett by James McKinney and James Everett, Madison, Charles W. Bone, Gallatin, for defendant.

Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court May 26, 1981.

ABRIDGED OPINION

TODD, Presiding Judge.

(With the concurrence of participating judges, the original opinion has been abridged for publication.)

This is an extraordinary appeal by one of the defendants, The State of Tennessee, from an order of the Chancellor overruling the motion of the State to dismiss on grounds of sovereign immunity.

The plaintiffs, owners or lessees of...

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