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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT JACKSON
Assigned On Brief August 24, 2001

ELIZABETH ELAINE HICKMAN, ET AL. v. CELIA VERNELL JORDAN,
ET AL.

Direct Appeal from the Circuit Court for Madison County
No. C99-353 Roger A. Page, Judge

No. W2000-03070-COA-R3-CV - November 28, 2001
This dispute stems from an accident in a restaurant parking lot in which a pedestrian, the plaintiff, was struck by a vehicle driven by the defendant, who was backing-up through the parking lot. The jury in this case found the defendant driver not at fault.  We affirm.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgment of the Circuit Court Affirmed; and
Remanded

DAV ID R. FARMER, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which W. FRANK CRAWFORD, P.J., W.S., and HOLLY K. LILLARD, J., joined.
Dwayne D. Maddox, III, Huntingdon, Tennessee, for the appellants, Elizabeth Elaine Hickman and John Robert Hickman.
Wesley A. Clayton and Greg A. Petrinjak, Jackson, Tennessee, for the appellees, Celia Vernell Jordan and Dr. F. E. Jordan.

OPINION
The determinative facts in this case are undisputed.  The accident in which the plaintiff, Elizabeth Elaine Hickman, was injured occurred at lunch hour in the parking lot of Dumplin

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