STEVENS v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 2180.

137 F.Supp. 333 (1955)

J. Edgar STEVENS, Plaintiff, v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

December 29, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross R. Barnett of Barnett, Jones & Montgomery, Jackson, Miss., F. D. Hewitt, McComb, Miss., A. A. Cohn, of Cohn, Hobbs & Hobbs, Brookhaven, Miss., for plaintiff.

J. L. Byrd, Byrd, Wise & Smith, Jackson, Miss., for defendant.


THOMAS, District Judge.

On the 8th day of May, 1954, the plaintiff, J. Edgar Stevens, filed his bill in the Chancery Court of Pike County, Mississippi, seeking to reform the memorandum which accompanied a voucher for $21,000, payable to the said J. Edgar Stevens. The portion sought to be eliminated therefrom was the provision that "the said Stevens, by the acceptance of this settlement, hereby severs any and all employee...

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