Legal Opinion
Thornhill v. Wilson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided April 8, 1987No. 56474PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
504 So.2d 1205 (1987)
David THORNHILL
v.
Terry WILSON, John Pittman, W.R. Selman and City of Columbia.
No. 56474.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
April 8, 1987.
Cotton Ruthven, Waller & Waller, Jackson, for appellant.
R.A. Gray, III, Gray, Montague & Pittman, Hattiesburg, for appellees.
Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J. and ROBERTSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.
ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:
I
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