City of Jackson v. Little

RODGERS, Justice:

This is an appeal by the City of Jackson, Mississippi, from the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, from an order sustaining demurrers of appellees, Samuel Randolph Little and Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company, Inc. The City of Jackson has appealed in an interlocutory appeal initiated by the chancery court’s own motion and in its own discretion to settle the controlling principles of this case. Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated section 1148 (1956).

The record reveals that Samuel Randolph Little, while in the exercise of his…