Natchez Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Watson

Hayes Watson, administrator of the estate of George Gibbs, deceased, filed this suit in the circuit court of Jefferson county, against the Natchez Coca-Cola Bottling Company, a domestic corporation domiciled in Adams county, Miss., seeking to recover damages for the death of the said George Gibbs, a colored boy seventeen years old, who was struck and killed on a public road in Jeffer-son county by a truck owned by the said bottling com'pany, and being driven at the time by Alex Goza. There was no resident defendant in Jefferson county, and a summons was issued by the circuit clerk of…