Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Nosser

Lack of time prevented as complete research as I would have liked to disclose in the dissent against the majority opinion in this case. At the outset I cited the Wigmore rule on Evidence, Section 2519, Vol. 9, 3rd ed., and our three Mississippi cases, namely, Young v. Westphalen & Co., 111 Miss. 765, 72 So. 193; McCreary v. Stevens, 156 Miss. 330, 126 So. 4; and Threatt v. Threatt, 212 Miss. 555, 54 So. 2d 907.

In the Mississippi cases, this Court committed itself to what has become known as the Wigmore Rule, which, simply stated, is: A letter properly addressed, with postage prepaid, if…