Legal Opinion
Lancaster v. City of Clarksdale
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided November 2, 1976No. 48910PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
339 So.2d 1359 (1976)
Beth LANCASTER, a minor, by next friend,
v.
CITY OF CLARKSDALE.
No. 48910.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
November 2, 1976.
Rehearing Denied November 30, 1976.
Holcomb, Dunbar, Connell, Merkel & Tollison, Charles M. Merkel, Clarksdale, for appellant.
Luckett & Barnwell, W.O. Luckett, Jr., Clarksdale, for appellee.
Before GILLESPIE, ROBERTSON and LEE, JJ.
ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:
Beth Lancaster, a 12-year-old minor, by next friend, sued the city of Clarksdale, Mississippi, in the Circuit Court of Coahoma County for damages sustained when she walked into a traffic control box…
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- Birdsong v. City of ClarksdaleMississippi Supreme Court · 1941
- The CITY OF CLEVELAND v. ThreadgillMississippi Supreme Court · 1963
- Wilson v. KirkwoodMississippi Supreme Court · 1969
- Carlize v. RichardsMississippi Supreme Court · 1968
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