ILLINOIS CENT. R. CO. v. WINTERS

No. 1999-CA-01387-SCT.

815 So.2d 1168 (2002)

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, Herbert Bennett and J.R. Wright v. Bertha Lee WINTERS, Demetrius Hawkins, Lucious Robinson, Individually, and as Father and Next Friend of Shuntai Robinson, Sherita Robinson and Juanita Robinson, Minors, Kevin Mabry, Tibithal O. Selders, Alvin P. Haymer, Dennis Haymer, Ira Haymer, Miller Haymer, Annette Haymer Fort, Larry Haymer, Stephanie Haymer Perkins, and Alvin P. Haymer, Jr.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn F. Beckham, Christopher Wayne Winter, Greenwood, Edward Blackmon, Jr., Canton, attorneys for appellants.

Pat M. Barrett, Jr., Lexington, Robert George Clark, III Isaac K. Byrd, Jr., Jackson, attorneys for appellees.

EN BANC.


COBB, J., for the Court.

¶ 1. In September of 1994, a train owned by Illinois Central Railroad Company collided with a car in Holmes County, Mississippi, resulting in the death of three persons. The following year, numerous plaintiffs (the heirs) initiated, inter alia, a wrongful death action in the Circuit Court of Holmes County against Illinois Central and its engineer and conductor, Herbert Bennett and J.R. Wright...

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