Mississippi Supreme Court, 1918

Owens v. Gulf & Ship Island Railroad

Owens v. Gulf & Ship Island Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided March 15, 1918 · Stevens
118 Miss. 437; 79 So. 348

Counsel

J. J. Stubbs, for appellant., Mayson <& Tally, for appellee., S. E. Travis and Alexander S Alexander, for appellees.

Owens v. Gulf & Ship Island Railroad

Opinion of the Court

Stevens, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case, as to the defendant Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company, is ruled by Eastman Gardiner & Co. v. Permenter, 111 Miss. 813, 72 So. 234, and *454the demurrer of the said defendant was properly sustained.

There was a misjoinder of defendants. The cause of action was not joint and several against all the defendants. McKee v. Kent, 24 Miss. 131; Board of Supervisors v. Jones, 103 Miss. 602, 60 So. 655. This rendered the amended declaration subject to demurrer of the defendants Boss and Hattiesburg Hospital.

Affirmed.

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