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Claims Against The State In Tennessee -- The Board Of Claims, George H. Cate Jr.
Claims Against The State In Tennessee -- The Board Of Claims, George H. Cate Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
The age-old doctrine of governmental immunity from suit seems gradually to be passing into the discard, first in the realm of contract liability, and of late in the field of torts. Recent years have seen its vitality substantially sapped by judicial decisions, and there is a distinct trend among governmental units to do away with it partially or entirely through legislation. Thus, England in the Crown Proceedings Act of 1947, the United States in the Federal Tort Claims Act, and many of the states by similar legislation have renounced their shield of immunity from suit and, by means more regularized …