Mayfield v. Johnson

BRADY, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of the First Circuit Court District of Hinds County, Mississippi, wherein a verdict of $2,000 -was rendered on behalf of the appellant, Mrs. Lamar Mayfield. The appellant prosecutes this appeal from the judgment in her favor. The controlling facts in this case are as follows.

On July 25, 1965, at approximately 7:20 P.M., the appellant was returning home from a church training union meeting. The appellant lives approximately one-fourth mile west of the boundaries of the city of Jackson on Hickory Road, which turns almost due south off…