Graves v. Hamilton

This is the second appearance of this case in this court, the former judgment having been reversed for erroneous instructions, 177 So. 360, — the opinion stating that the decision was ruled by the companion case, Graves et al. v. Johnson et al., 179 Miss. 465, 176 So. 256. The facts now shown of record, so far as concerns the issue of liability, are substantially the same as outlined in .the case last cited, wherefore we will not enter upon a repetition of them; but we will, to some extent, summarize the effect of the holding in that case.

The defendant, road contractor had a right to place a…