Personal Injury Law

Tort Law Tibit - Negligence Per Se

By John A. Day

 What is the name of the case that tells us that violation of a statute is negligence per se? Cook By and Through Uithoven v. Spinnaker's of Rivergate, 878 S.W.2d 934, 937 (Tenn. 1994). What about the violation of a regulation? Long by Cotton v. Brookside Manor, 885 S.W.2d 70, 73-74 (Tenn. App. 1994). An ordinance? Kim v. Boucher, 55 S.W.2d 551 (Tenn. App. 2001).

(Originally appeared May 39, 2005).

Full post as published by Day on Torts on June 25, 2008 (boomark / email).