MORTON BROILER FARMS, INC. v. MORGAN

No. 44052.

191 So.2d 137 (1966)

MORTON BROILER FARMS, INC., and Frankie Lee Hughes v. Mrs. Evelyn MORGAN.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Suggestion of Error Overruled November 7, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cary E. Bufkin, Satterfield, Shell, Williams & Buford, Jackson, for appellants.

Percy M. Lee, Roy Noble Lee, Forest, for appellee.


JONES, Justice:

Appellee recovered a judgment for $24,000 for personal injuries received when the car in which she was riding, driven by her husband, was knocked off the highway by appellant's truck, driven by its employee Frankie Lee Hughes. A wheel of the truck came off, the axle dropped to the ground, and the jury was justified in believing from the evidence, regardless of the reason for the loss of the wheel, that the truck was being driven at an excessive and...

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