This rule is inapplicable to post-judgment interest.
Tenn. R. Civ. P. 67.04
Advisory Commission Comments [1998].
The losing defendant cannot avoid post-judgment interest due under T.C.A. §47-14-121 by depositing the verdict amount into the trial court clerk's office.
Advisory Commission Comments [2012].
The 1998 Comment is clarified, and an erroneous cross-reference in that Comment to "Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-14-222" is corrected to "Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-14-121."