Gulf Coast Stevedoring Co. v. Gibbs
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Harrison county. Bon. Di. M. Graham, Judge. Action by George Gibbs against the Gulf Coast Stevedoring Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. On motion by defendant to strike part of record. Appeal from circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. D. M. Graham, Judge. Proceedings between the Gulf Coast Stevedoring Company and George Gibbs. Judgment for the latter, and the former appeal.
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Appeal from circuit court of Harrison county. Bon. Di. M. Graham, Judge. Action by George Gibbs against the Gulf Coast Stevedoring Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. On motion by defendant to strike part of record. Appeal from circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. D. M. Graham, Judge. Proceedings between the Gulf Coast Stevedoring Company and George Gibbs. Judgment for the latter, and the former appeal. On motion to strike certain portions from a paper signed by the trial judge. Motion overruled.
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
This is a motion to strike from the record certain pages, for the reason that they constitute no part of the record. The pages moved to be stricken from the record constitute a petition to the circuit judge in vacation, alleging that at the trial of the case, through inadvertence, the jury, in rendering its verdict, inserted the amount of their finding in a blank space of an instruction on the form of the verdict; that this instruction instructed the jury that if‘they found for the plaintiff they would.find $ — :-, and that the jury filled in the blank so as to read fifteen hundred dollars,…
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