Thompson v. Dung Thi Hoang Nguyen
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
*235 ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI
DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,
for the Court.
¶ 1. In this negligence suit, the defendant admitted liability but contested her negligence was the proximate cause of all the damages claimed. The jury awarded the plaintiff less than the amount requested. Because causation is a question of fact for the jury, we affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
112. In March 2002, Dung Thi Hoang Nguyen — who had stopped behind Karen Thompson at a red light — reached for her purse, causing her foot to slip off the brake and her car to bump into Thompson’s. Neither car was damaged.…
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