State Highway Commission v. Mason

Appellee sued appellant in a justice of the peace court, the statement of her claim reading as follows:

"To use and occupation and damages, both actual and punitive, for parking, both day and night, on the driveway and yard at her store and filling station and home, at the intersection of Highway 49 and Camp Kickapoo Road, of 2 caterpillar road machines, 2 graders, 6 trucks and several automobiles, during the months of December 1939 and January and February, 1940, in the sum of $200.

"Plaintiff alleges that some representative of the State Highway Commission of Mississippi in December 1939,…