Brake v. Speed
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
605 So.2d 28 (1992)
Wilnetia BRAKE
v.
Sally SPEED.
No. 89-CA-14.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
July 22, 1992.
Jim Davis Hull, Moss Point, for appellant.
James W. Backstrom, Bryan Nelson Schroeder Backstrom Castigliola & Banahan, C. Michael Lanford, Pascagoula, for appellee.
EN BANC.
BANKS, Justice, for the Court:
Wilnetia Brake (Brake) asks this Court to address familiar principles of tort law made problematic because of the factual scenario to which she attempts to apply them. She was involved in two accidents within a six-month time period, and she sustained injuries in both. The first accident was…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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