SPLAIN v. HINES

No. 89-CA-00055.

609 So.2d 1234 (1992)

Charles SPLAIN, a Minor v. Florence HINES.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied December 3, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crymes G. Pittman, Joseph E. Roberts, Jr., Cothren & Pittman, Jackson, for appellant.

Michael W. Ulmer, Frank A. Wood, Watkins & Eager, Janet McMurtray, Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This appeal of a civil action presents at its core questions regarding the range of tolerable levels of generality of expression in jury instructions, singly and in the aggregate. The case arises from a near tragedy — a young woman motorist struck and stopped upon a twelve-year-old boy who darted out from behind an apartment building. The boy sued, but the jury found for the motorist.

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