Legal Opinion

Yazoo M.V.R. Co. v. Denton

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 13, 1931No. 29078PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.

The appellee, Jesse BO. Denton, instituted this suit in the circuit court of Lauderdale county, Mississippi, against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Eailroad Company, the Illinois Central Eailroad Company, and Jim Hunter, a porter, alleged to have been employed by both railroad companies, for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained as a result of negligence of said porter in loading United States mail onto a train of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Eailroad Company, and from a verdict and judgment for ten thousand dollars against all of the defendants, this appeal was.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Standard Oil Co. v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
  2. Burgess v. Standard Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1920

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Denton v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
  2. Texas Co. v. MillsMississippi Supreme Court · 1934
  3. Fries v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1948
  4. Hiller v. GoodwinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
  5. Long v. WOOLLARD, & FARMERS ELEVATOR, INC. FMississippi Supreme Court · 1964

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