GIGGERS v. MEMPHIS HOUSING AUTHORITY

No. W2010-00806-SC-R11-CV.

363 S.W.3d 500 (2012)

Cheryl Brown GIGGERS et al. v. MEMPHIS HOUSING AUTHORITY et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

April 2, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Archie Sanders, III , Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellants, Angela G. Brown, Charles C. Brown, Jr., Cheryl Brown Giggers, and JoAnn Fisher.

Joe Lee Wyatt and William Joseph Wyatt , Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Scruggs Security and Patrol, LLC.

Charles Wesley Fowler , Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellee, Memphis Housing Authority.


OPINION

JANICE M. HOLDER, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which CORNELIA A. CLARK, C.J., and GARY R. WADE, WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.

The plaintiffs, survivors of a tenant killed by the criminal act of another tenant, filed suit against the defendant housing authority. The plaintiffs alleged the housing authority was negligent in failing to evict the other tenant at the first instance of violent behavior. The housing...

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