SOUTHWEST DRUG STORES OF MISSISSIPPI, INC. v. GARNER

No. 44179.

195 So.2d 837 (1967)

SOUTHWEST DRUG STORES OF MISSISSIPPI, INC., et al. v. Mrs. W.H. GARNER.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 27, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Mullins, III, Gibbes & Graves, Laurel, for appellants.

Quitman Ross, Laurel, for appellee.


INZER, Justice.

Mrs. W.H. Garner recovered a judgment for $8,000 in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County against appellants, Southwest Drug Stores and Wilroy Ratcliff, as damages for slander and unlawful detention.

Plaintiff, appellee here, is a resident of Pascagoula, but formerly lived in Jones County, where her parents and sister still reside. On November 19, 1963, while on a family visit, Mrs. Garner and her sister stopped...

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