Tennessee Code 43-18-109 – Liability of owner of gin or tobacco establishment for sale of product containing foreign objects
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 43-18-109
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
If any person sells or otherwise disposes of cotton or tobacco fraudulently packed with wood, iron, rocks, dirt or other substance, the person at whose gin or establishment the cotton or tobacco was put up is deemed guilty of negligence, and shall, upon suit on behalf of any subsequent purchaser of the cotton or tobacco, pay double the value of the cotton or tobacco as damages, and also the cost of reshipping the cotton or tobacco from the market where the fraud was detected.