Phillips Distributors, Inc. v. Texaco, Inc.

RODGERS, Justice:

Phillips Distributors, Incorporated, appellant, brought suit in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Mississippi, against Texaco, Incorporated, and J. L. Mize, ap-pellees, for damages growing out of an alleged wrongful and malicious interference with a contract between appellant and James Shields, and also damages for the wrongful trespass and conversion of certain property belonging to them. At the conclusion of the trial, a judgment by default was entered in favor of appellant against J. L. Mize, but the trial judge sustained a motion by appellee, Texaco, requesting a…