Coccora v. Vicksburg Light & Traction Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Warren county. Hon. E. L. Brien, Judge. Action by Rosario Coccora against the Vicksburg Light & Traction Company. Prom a judgment in his favor for less than amount demanded, plaintiff appeals. There is a splendid exposition of the doctrine of identification or imputed negligence in Blakemore’s Babbitt on Motor Vehicles, and we shall quote liberally therefrom.
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Appeal from circuit court of Warren county. Hon. E. L. Brien, Judge. Action by Rosario Coccora against the Vicksburg Light & Traction Company. Prom a judgment in his favor for less than amount demanded, plaintiff appeals. There is a splendid exposition of the doctrine of identification or imputed negligence in Blakemore’s Babbitt on Motor Vehicles, and we shall quote liberally therefrom. As is shown in the opening section 773, the word “passenger” was selected as a general expression covering all persons occupying a vehicle, who are without authority to direct or control the occupants…
1Opinion of the CourtW. H. Cook, J.
This suit was instituted by appellant, Rosario1 Coccora, against the appellee, Vicksburg Light & Traction Company, *724to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellant as a result of a collision between an automobile in which he was riding and a street car operated by appellee, and from a judgment for appellant for the sum of one hundred and’seventy-five dollars this- appeal was prosecuted.
It appears from the testimony that at the time of the accident appellant was riding as a guest in an automobile driven by his niece, Mrs. Bucci; that it was or had been…
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