SPELL v. RUFF

No. 45121.

217 So.2d 7 (1968)

Mr. and Mrs. L.O. SPELL et al. v. M.A. RUFF, Jr.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 23, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry H. Powell, Waller, Pritchard & Fox, Jackson, for appellants.

Lipscomb, Barksdale, Steen & Caraway, Jackson, for appellee.


SMITH, Justice:

The action out of which this appeal arose was begun against appellee, M.A. Ruff, Jr., in the Circuit Court of Hinds County by appellants, who are the heirs at law of Ricky Leon Spell, a fourteen year old boy, for the recovery of damages for his alleged wrongful death in an automobile-motorcycle collision, and was brought under the provisions of Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated section 1453 (1956).

The case was tried and submitted to a jury which...

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