Court Sides With TSSAA that Umpires Were Not Agents of Association

A Tennessee state appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s finding that the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association was not responsible for a baseball player’s injury, which may have occurred because of the negligence of the umpires. Specifically, it agreed with the trial court that the umpires were not agents of the TSSAA.   The court wrote that “this is one of the rare tort cases where the facts are essentially undisputed. Cason McInturff played baseball for Battle Ground