Mississippi Supreme Court, 1917

Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Duke

Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Duke
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided March 15, 1917 · Smith
113 Miss. 881; 74 So. 693

Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Duke

Opinion of the Court

Smith., C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The amount of damages awarded is excessive within the rule requiring that the judgment of the court below he reversed unless a remittitur is entered. Consequently if a remittitur of three hundred dollars is entered the judgment will be affirmed; otherwise it will be reversed, and the cause remanded.

Affirmed conditionally.

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