Legal Opinion

Scott-Burr Stores Corp. v. Edgar

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided January 3, 1938No. 32451PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMcGehee, J.

On the former appeal of this case, as reported in 165 So. 623, there had been a judgment for $15,000 rendered in favor of appellee, Charles Edgar, in the circuit court of Hinds county, against both the appellant corporation and the manager of its local store at. Jackson, Miss. The declaration contained two counts, the first one alleging that the appellant E. W. Swansqn, while acting within the scope of his employment as manager of, the store, committed an assault and battery on appellee by seizing him with both hands and by jerking and pulling him back into the store for the purpose of…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Singer Manufacturing Co. v. RahnSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
  2. New Jersey Steamboat Co. v. BrockettSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  3. Barmore v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1904
  4. Richberger v. American Express Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1895
  5. Louisiana Oil Corp. v. RennoMississippi Supreme Court · 1934

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Richard GARZIANO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., Defendant-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1987
  2. Young v. JacksonMississippi Supreme Court · 1990
  3. Montgomery Ward & Co. v. SkinnerMississippi Supreme Court · 1946
  4. JC Penney Co., Inc. v. CoxMississippi Supreme Court · 1963
  5. Southwest Drug Stores of Mississippi, Inc. v. GarnerMississippi Supreme Court · 1967

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