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SMITH v. CITY OF WEST POINT

No. 54965.

475 So.2d 816 (1985)

Mrs. E.N. SMITH v. CITY OF WEST POINT, Travelers Indemnity Company and National Security Fire and Casualty Company.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 4, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Waide, Estes & Waide, Tupelo, for appellant.

David Williams, Williams, Glover, Walton & McAlilly, Meridian, J. Joshua Stevens, Jr., Thomas M. Tubb, West Point, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal presents a rather unusual question of whether under pre-Pruett law1 an incorporated municipality may be mulcted for damages said to have been caused by its failure to train properly a police officer in the art of the high speed chase and via respondeat superior by reason of the chasing officer's independent negligence. Mrs. E.N. Smith, Plaintiff below and Appellant here, charges that...

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