Merchants Co. v. Way

RODGERS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Mississippi, in favor of the plaintiffs, William E. Way, and his minor children, Michael William Way, Robert Edward Way and Cynthia Sue Way, against The Merchants Company and William Issac Johns, Jr., for the death of Mrs. William E. Way as the result of an automobile accident. The accident occurred on Interstate Highway 59 on March 8, 1968, at a place about two (2) miles north of the Lumberton interchange in Lamar County, Mississippi.

The circumstances leading up to the accident may be summarized as…