Smith v. City of West Point

475 So.2d 816 (1985)

Mrs. E.N. SMITH

v.

CITY OF WEST POINT, Travelers Indemnity Company and National Security Fire and Casualty Company.

No. 54965.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 4, 1985.

Jim Waide, Estes & Waide, Tupelo, for appellant.

David Williams, Williams, Glover, Walton & McAlilly, Meridian, J. Joshua Stevens, Jr., Thomas M. Tubb, West Point, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal presents a rather unusual question of whether under pre-Pruett law[1] an incorporated municipality may be mulcted for damages…