Legal Opinion
Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company v. Chantel Jobes
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided January 22, 2015No. 2013-IA-01261-SCT, 2013-IA-01268-SCTPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAMAR, Justice, for the Court:
¶ 1. In the early morning hours of April 19, 2010, Chantel Jobes’s vehicle left the southbound lane of Highway 11, crossed the northbound lane and crashed into a concrete railroad trestle. Jobes was seriously injured in the accident, and she filed a complaint against Norfolk Southern Railway Company, the Mississippi Transportation Commission, and the Mississippi Department of Transportation. The trial judge denied the defendants’ motions for summary judgment. This Court granted the defendants’ request for an interlocutory appeal, and we now render summary…
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