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MITCHAM v. ILLINOIS CENT. GULF R. CO.

No. 56343.

515 So.2d 852 (1987)

Ann MITCHAM, Individually and as Legal Representative and as Next Friend of the Beneficiaries of Robert D. Mitcham v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF RAILROAD COMPANY, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied December 9, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Robert Hammond, Jr., Bryant, Stennis & Colingo, Jan W. Sellers, Jackson, Sellers & Guest, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

Erskine W. Wells, J. Jerry Langford, Clifford K. Bailey, III, Wells, Wells, Marble & Hurst, Jackson, Francis T. Zachary, Jr., Zachary & Zachary, Hattiesburg, for appellee.

Before WALKER, C.J., and ANDERSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.

WALKER, Chief Justice, for the Court:

This appeal arises from a unanimous jury verdict in the Circuit Court of Forrest County, Mississippi in favor of Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (hereinafter ICGRR) and Thomas Street (hereinafter Street) the train's engineer. On the morning of April 20, 1981 a collision occurred between ICGRR's Engine No. 172 and a City of Richland, Mississippi police car driven by Officer Robert Mitcham, deceased, at the Scarborough Street crossing...

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