Knighton v. Knighton

JONES, Justice:

This is a companion case to that of Dempsey v. Knighton, 244 So.2d 721 (Miss. 1971). The plaintiff here was in the car with Billy Gene Knighton when Billy Gene was killed and Dempsey injured. The facts regarding the accident are the same in this case as in the Dempsey case.

*847The Dempsey case was reversed because the lower court granted two erroneous instructions to the defendant; the two instructions are copied in full in the opinion in the Dempsey case; and we are not restating them here. The identical instructions were given in this case, and a reversal is required thereby.

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