Rainey v. Hinds County
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. Rainey, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below, Hinds county, appellee, was defendant there. The case was once before in the supreme court and is reported. Rainey v. Hinds County, 78 Miss., 308, to which reference is made for a fuller presentation of the controversy.
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From the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. Rainey, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below, Hinds county, appellee, was defendant there. The case was once before in the supreme court and is reported. Rainey v. Hinds County, 78 Miss., 308, to which reference is made for a fuller presentation of the controversy. After the remand of the case to the court below, it was tried upon the merits, resulting in a judgment for defendant, and the plaintiff appealed a second time to the supreme court. The facts on the second trial sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. The road…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
A causeway was built along the public highway where it passes over the land of the plaintiff below, and was, it is said, so negligently constructed that great injury was inflicted upon said plaintiff. It appears from the evidence that a drain across the highway would have obviated the injury, if such drain had been suitably constructed, and the plaintiff had availed himself of its use. But the negligent or wrongful construction of the causeway, if taken to be proven, was the work solely of the *241road overseer. The board of supervisors gave no directions as to how the causeway should be…
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