Eaton v. Gilliland

Today's appeal is from an adverse jury verdict of the second trial of the Circuit Court of Forrest County, Mississippi, in the May 1986 term of said Court (a mistrial being declared in the first trial in January 1986).

The complaint sought damages of $176,500 growing out of an automobile collision between Henry Thomas Eaton (hereinafter Eaton), the appellant, and Jimmy L. Gilliland (hereinafter Gilliland), the appellee, on April 22, 1985, in the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Feeling aggrieved by the adverse ruling, Eaton appeals and assigns as error:

I. The Trial Court Erred in Overruling…