PELICAN TRUCKING CO. v. ROSSETTI

No. 43153.

251 Miss. 37 (1964)

167 So.2d 924

PELICAN TRUCKING COMPANY v. ROSSETTI

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 19, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dent, Ward, Martin & Terry, Vicksburg, for appellant.

Teller, Biedenharn & Rogers, Vicksburg, for appellees.


ETHRIDGE, J.

Appellee, Floyd Rossetti, Jr., brought this action in the Circuit Court of Warren County against appellant, Pelican Trucking Company, Inc. (called Pelican). The court gave Rossetti a peremptory instruction on liability, and submitted to the jury both actual and punitive damages.

The principal question is whether the trial court was correct in allowing punitive damages, where the only evidence to support...

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