DEPOSIT GUAR. B. & T. CO. v. NELSON

No. 38044.

212 Miss. 335 (1951)

54 So.2d 476

DEPOSIT GUARANTY BANK & TRUST CO. v. NELSON.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division A.

October 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pyles & Tucker, for appellants.

Crisler & Crisler and T.E. Caldwell, for appellee.

Julian P. Alexander, Jr., and Barnett, Jones & Montgomery, amici curiae.


Ethridge, C.

Appellee, plaintiff in the court below, sued her stepfather for wrongfully causing the death of his wife, appellee's mother. The suit was for damages under the Mississippi wrongful death statute. Appellant contends that he was immune from suit by his wife, if she had lived, and that the wife's survivor is likewise disabled. Appellant has been adjudicated...

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