Hearin-Miller Transporters, Inc. v. Currie

ROBERTSON, Justice:

The Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, rendered judgment for $100,000.00, based on a jury verdict, in favor of plaintiff, Bob Lee Currie, and against defendants, Hearin-Miller Transporters, Inc. and W. F. Mann. The defendants appeal from that judgment.

This is the third case based on the same tragic automobile-tractor-trailer collision to reach this Court.

In Newman v. Hearin-Miller Transporters, Inc. and W. F. Mann, 214 So.2d 684 (Miss.1968), the trial judge in giving a directed verdict for the defendants when the plaintiff rested,…