SEWELL v. AMERICAN UNIFORM CO.


759 S.W.2d 415 (1988)

Peggy SEWELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN UNIFORM COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

October 10, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund Lee Baugh, Jr., Cleveland, for plaintiff-appellant.

George Lane Foster, Hall, Haynes, Lusk & Foster, Chattanooga, for defendant-appellee.


OPINION

HARBISON, Chief Justice.

Appellant sustained an accidental injury on March 17, 1987, when she was struck by a vehicle being driven by a fellow employee in a fenced company-owned parking lot. She had finished work for the day, had clocked out and had entered the parking lot to get into her automobile in order to drive home.

The Chancellor concluded that the parking lot was sufficiently controlled and inaccessible to members of the public that...

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