Vicksburg Railroad, Power & Manufacturing Co. v. White
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. George Anderson, Judge. Mrs. White and others, appellees, were plaintiffs in the court below; the Vicksburg, etc., Company, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts upon which the decision is based are stated in the opinion of the court.
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From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. George Anderson, Judge. Mrs. White and others, appellees, were plaintiffs in the court below; the Vicksburg, etc., Company, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts upon which the decision is based are stated in the opinion of the court. The court, notwithstanding the objection of appellant, permitted George T. Elannigan to testify concerning the expectancy of life. The age of Flora White being forty-seven years, at the time of the death of Ike White, that was the…
1Opinion of the CourtPrice, J.
This case was before this court once before (31 South., 109), *470upon an appeal from a peremptory instruction given for the defendant below, and the case was reversed and remanded because this court was of the opinion that the question of negligence, on the facts shown, was one for the jury. The facts, as now presented by this record, do not change our former opinion on that subject. On the trial of this ease in the court below, the plaintiffs, after showing the death of Ike White, showed that Flora White, his wife, and their children, aged twelve and fourteen, were his only heirs, and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Illinois Central Railroad v. CrudupMississippi Supreme Court · 1885
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