Wells v. Edwards House & City Railway Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Eeom the circuit court of. first district, Hinds county. Hon. Wiley H. Pottee, Judge. Wells, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; the railway company, appellee, was defendant there. Prom a judgment in defendant’s favor plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. The Jackson Electric Railway, Light and Power Company, in so far as concerns this case was but another name by which appellee was known. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Eeom the circuit court of. first district, Hinds county. Hon. Wiley H. Pottee, Judge. Wells, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; the railway company, appellee, was defendant there. Prom a judgment in defendant’s favor plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. The Jackson Electric Railway, Light and Power Company, in so far as concerns this case was but another name by which appellee was known. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. By the common law, property not in possession was incapable of transfer, and, therefore, choses in action, subject to well recognized…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith-, J.
One Hoy, having been injured, as it is alleged, by the negligence of the employes of appellee in the running of one of its cars, and desiring to recover damages therefor, sent for appellant, an attorney at law, and executed and delivered to him the following contract:
“In consideration of legal services rendered and to be rendered, I, William Franklin Hoy, assign and set over to W. 0. Wells, Jr., my attorney, an undivided one-fourth interest in and to my right of action against the Jackson Electric Kailway & Power Company for injuries received by me on the morning of July 18, 1908, by car at…
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