BERRYHILL v. BYRD

No. 51843.

384 So.2d 1026 (1980)

Mrs. A.E. BERRYHILL, Administratrix of Estate of Kenneth Berryhill, Deceased v. Kenneth BYRD.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied July 9, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Malouf, Jackson, for appellant.

Watkins & Eager, Velia Ann Mayer, Jackson, for appellee.

Before SMITH, P.J., and BROOM and COFER, JJ.


BROOM, Justice, for the Court:

Continuing a motion for a new trial to a vacation date without any further action until the next term highlights this tort case which arose out of an altercation in which appellee/defendant Kenneth Byrd apparently shot appellant/plaintiff Kenneth R. Berryhill. Trial was in the July-August Term of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, where Berryhill received a $100,000 jury verdict ($50,000 actual...

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