Berryhill v. Byrd

BROOM, Justice, for the Court:

Continuing a motion for a new trial to a vacation date without any further action until the next term highlights this tort case which arose out of an altercation in which appellee/defendant Kenneth Byrd apparently shot appellant/plaintiff Kenneth R. Berryhill. Trial was in the July-August Term of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, where Berryhill received a $100,000 jury verdict ($50,000 actual and $50,000 punitive damages) and judgment (dated July 24, 1978). Byrd filed a motion for j. n. o. v. or new trial, dated July…