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COCKRUM v. STATE

843 S.W.2d 433 (1992)

Hugh COCKRUM, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. STATE of Tennessee, Defendant/Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Middle Section, at Nashville.

Permission to Appeal Denied December 7, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip L. Davidson, Nashville, for plaintiff/appellant.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen., and Reporter William N. Bates, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for defendant/appellee.

Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court December 7, 1992.

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal involves an inmate who committed suicide while incarcerated at the Deberry Correctional Institute. Her husband filed a claim with the Tennessee Claims Commission alleging that negligent supervision was the proximate cause of his wife's death. The claims commissioner denied the claim, finding that the inmate's suicide was, as a matter of law, the intervening...

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