GULF, MOBILE & OHIO RAILROAD CO. v. HOLLINGSHEAD

No. 45850.

236 So.2d 393 (1970)

GULF, MOBILE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY and E.H. Swetman v. Wilda Raye HOLLINGSHEAD, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of James Arlie Hollingshead.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 8, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.S. Murphy, Lucedale, Fred B. Smith, Ripley, Percy W. Johnston, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for appellants.

Cumbest, Cumbest & Shaddock, Pascagoula, for appellee.


ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice.

Wilda Raye Hollingshead, individually and as mother and next friend of James Arlie Hollingshead, a minor, brought this action in the Circuit Court of George County against appellants-defendants, the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company and E.H. Swetman, engineer of its train, for the alleged wrongful death of James Louis Hollingshead, husband and father respectively of the plaintiffs. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiffs, upon which...

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