2. See subhead Negligent entrustment under Automobile Accidents.
How Do I Find a Tennessee Court Case
in West's Tennessee Digest?
Scanned pages used in video that illustrate
going from the Descriptive Word Index to the alphabetical topics
Remember to check for pockets parts in each volume of the digest.
1. Use the Descriptive Word Index. Search automobile accident about negligence of an unlicensed driver. Also notice that each volume of the Tennessee Digest has a preface that includes abbreviations of courts and digest topics.
2. See subhead Negligent entrustment under Automobile Accidents.
3. Under the subheadings "Negligent entrustment"
and "unlicensed driver, entrustment to," there are key numbers given for the
Autos topic. Pull the "Automobiles" topic volume and search each key
number starting with 192(11).
4. Read through the digest of the cases to find the best match to the case under
consideration. Choose a case to look up, for example the first one, 539
S.W.2d 31. Pull volume 539 of South Western Reporter 2d.
5. Look on page 31 for the start of the text of the Beckendorf v. Simmons case.
6. Words and Phrases
section of the digest defines key terms that have been used in the digest.
7. Look up "negligence"
there to see digests of cases that have helped to define the term. This
term plays a key role in the case under consideration.
