Hattiesburg Brick Works, Inc. v. Conerly

N. C. Conerly instituted this suit in the Circuit Court of Walthall County against the defendants Hattiesburg Brick Works, Inc., with its home office in Forrest County, Mississippi, and its truck driver, Ernest Ross, whose residence was also in Forrest County, Mississippi, and Wilbert Ratliff, a resident of Walthall County, Mississippi. The charge in the declaration was, simply stated, that all of the defendants were guilty of joint and concurrent negligence, which proximately caused the injuries allegedly sustained by him. Thus the issue was whether or not the defendants were guilty of the…