Edwards v. Yazoo & M. V. R.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Quitman county. Hon. T. B. "WatkiNS; Judge. Consolidated action by Mrs. B. F. Edwards against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. The two cases aboye styled involve the same cause of action, ánd were argued and submitted together.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Quitman county. Hon. T. B. "WatkiNS; Judge. Consolidated action by Mrs. B. F. Edwards against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. The two cases aboye styled involve the same cause of action, ánd were argued and submitted together. In each case Mrs. Edwards, the appellant, was plaintiff in the court below, and we shall refer to the suits as the first suit and, the second suit regardless of their numbers on the docket. In the first action the plaintiff, as the mother, sued appellee for the death of…
1Opinion of the CourtSteveNS, J.
• (After stating the facts as above). The judgment rendered by the trial court in each of the two suits here argued and submitted together must be reversed. The first .action filed by appellant was by a solemn judgment .of -the court dismissed without prejudice, and the court, after the rendition of this judgment, adjourned for the term. The judgment designated by counsel as a judgment nunc pro tunc was entered at a subsequent. term, and shows upon its face that it is not in fact the rendition of the judgment which the court had, by inadvertence or otherwise, failed to enter, but. is the…
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