Legal Opinion

Bazor v. J. J. Newman Lumber Co.

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 29, 1923No. 23582PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from circuit court of Lamar county. IIon. J. Q. Langston, Judge. Action by Estus Bazor against the J. J. Newman Lumber Company. Prom a judgment sustaining demurrers to declarations and dismissing the cause, plaintiff appeals.

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Appeal from circuit court of Lamar county. IIon. J. Q. Langston, Judge. Action by Estus Bazor against the J. J. Newman Lumber Company. Prom a judgment sustaining demurrers to declarations and dismissing the cause, plaintiff appeals. The two pleas of appeliee replied-to set up the fact that Estus Bazor, together with his father and mother, J. W. Bazor -and Margaret Bazor, as bis next friends, on tbe-day of January, 1920, filed an ex parte petition in vacation in tbe ‘chancery court of Covington county, by which be was emancipated by decree of said court. Our replications averred that the…

1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.

The. appellant filed a declaration in the circuit court of Lamar county, alleging personal injuries and seeking to recover damages therefor in the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars. The appellee, defendant in the court below, filed two special pleas, averring that at the time of the alleged injury the appellant was a minor; that, acting through his father, J. W. Bazor, and his mother, Margaret Bazor, as next friends, he filed a petition in the chancery court of Covington county in which he set forth the fact of the injury sustained by him; that the appellee denied liability for such…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Hardy v. PepperMississippi Supreme Court · 1921
  2. Jackson v. JacksonMississippi Supreme Court · 1913
  3. Milham v. HigdonMississippi Supreme Court · 1922

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Eastman-Gardner Co. v. LeverettMississippi Supreme Court · 1925
  2. Johnson v. Mississippi Power Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1934
  3. Schrader v. Texas Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1951
  4. Schrader v. Texas Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1951

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