Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper has filed a lawsuit alleging deceptive practices against two McMinnville nursery companies, according to a news release from his office.
The defendants are Autumn Ridge Nursery Inc. and Summerstone Nursery, Inc., both owned by Samuel and Melinda Womack, the release stated. Both nurseries sell through catalogs and online.
The state claims that, “while the defendants’ websites and catalogs display photographs of healthy, mature and viable plants and trees for sale, the goods actually shipped out by the defendants are often in a ‘dormant’ state, ‘bare root,’ or even dead.”
The news release says more than 400 people have complained of late shipments, failure to deliver, failure to refund or replace goods or money and misrepresentation.
Read the lawsuit at www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/cases/autumnridge/autumnridge.htm.
Anyone who has a complaint against the defendants may call the Tennessee Division of Consumer Affairs at 1-800-342-8385 or visit http://tn.gov/consumer.