GATES RUBBER CO. v. DUKE

No. 50590.

367 So.2d 910 (1979)

GATES RUBBER COMPANY v. Eunice C. DUKE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied March 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lott, Sanders & Gwin, Arnold F. Gwin, Greenwood, for appellant.

Odom, Odom & McCain, Talbot O. McCain, Greenwood, for appellee.

En Banc.


LEE, Justice, for the Court:

Mrs. Eunice C. Duke filed a products liability suit in the Circuit Court of Leflore County against Gates Rubber Company, seeking damages for the death of her husband. The jury returned a verdict in her favor in the sum of two hundred nine thousand nine hundred seventy-nine dollars twenty-five cents ($209,979.25). The trial judge entered a remittitur of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), which was accepted by the plaintiff, and judgment...

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