COURT OF APPEALS OPINIONS

Brenda Bailey Loyd, v. Wendell Ray Loyd
02A01-9504-CH-00084
Authoring Judge: Judge Holly Kirby Lillard
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Joe C. Morris

This case involves contempt proceedings brought against Wendell Ray Loyd (“Husband”) by Brenda Bailey Loyd (“Ex-Wife”) for failure to pay alimony. The trial court found that Husband did not have the present ability to pay and therefore could not be incarcerated for contempt. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

03A01-9603-CV-00080
03A01-9603-CV-00080

03A01-9606-CH-00186
03A01-9606-CH-00186

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01A01-9605-CV-00200
01A01-9605-CV-00200
Trial Court Judge: Marietta M. Shipley

01A01-9603-CV-00108
01A01-9603-CV-00108
Trial Court Judge: Cornelia A. Clark

01A01-9602-CH-00086
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01A01-9604-CH-00178
01A01-9604-CH-00178
Trial Court Judge: Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr.

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02A01-9510-CV-00225
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Trial Court Judge: Wyeth Chandler

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Linda Plunk v. National Health Investors
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Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr.
Trial Court Judge: Robert L. Jones
This appeal involves a nursing home visitor who injured herself by stepping into a grassy depression in the building's landscaping. The visitor and her husband filed suit in the Circuit Court for Lawrence County alleging that the nursing home's owner had failed to maintain the premises in a reasonably safe condition. A jury apportioned sixty percent of the fault to the nursing home and forty percent to the visitor and awarded the visitor $40,000 for medical expenses and permanent impairment. Both parties filed post-trial motions after the trial court entered a $24,000 judgment for the visitor. The visitor and her husband sought a new trial or an additur because the jury had not awarded damages for pain and suffering. The nursing home filed a Tenn. R. Civ. P. 50.02 motion for a judgment in accordance with its motion for a directed verdict. The trial court denied the nursing home's motion and suggested a $5,000 additur. The nursing home accepted the additur, and both parties appealed. The visitor asserts that the trial court erred by failing to grant a new trial, and the nursing home asserts that the trial court erred by denying its Tenn. R. Civ. P. 50.02 motion. We have determined that the trial court erred by denying the nursing home's Tenn. R. Civ. P. 50.02 motion because it was not reasonably foreseeable that visitors would be walking on the grassy area where the plaintiff fell. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment.

Mary J. Drozd, v. Hermitage Villa Condominiums Homeowners Association, Inc., Hillsboro Property Management Company, Inc., and Gary Waller and State of Tennessee
01A01-9408-CV-00366
Authoring Judge: Special Judge Robert E. Corlew, III
Trial Court Judge: Judge Thomas W. Brothers

From the decision of the Trial Court dismissing a portion of the original complaint and from the subsequent decision of the Trial Court granting summary judgment for the Defendants as to a second ground of recovery sought, the Plaintiff was granted an interlocutory appeal to this court.

02A01-9507-CH-00146
02A01-9507-CH-00146
Trial Court Judge: D. J. Alissandratos

01A01-9511-CV-00503
01A01-9511-CV-00503
Trial Court Judge: Muriel Robinson

01A01-9603-CH-00098
01A01-9603-CH-00098
Trial Court Judge: Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr.

01A01-9605-GS-00237
01A01-9605-GS-00237
Trial Court Judge: Barry R. Brown

01A01-9608-CH-00364
01A01-9608-CH-00364
Trial Court Judge: Robert S. Brandt

01A01-9510-CH-00450
01A01-9510-CH-00450
Trial Court Judge: Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr.

01A01-9604-CH-00152
01A01-9604-CH-00152
Trial Court Judge: Ellen Hobbs Lyle

01A01-9605-CH-00208
01A01-9605-CH-00208
Trial Court Judge: Leonard W. Martin