ILLINOIS CENT. R. CO. v. HAWKINS

No. 2001-CA-01124-SCT.

830 So.2d 1162 (2002)

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, Herbert Bennett and J.R. Wright v. 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, Jr.; Dennis Haymer; Ira Haymer; Miller Haymer; Annette Haymer Fort; Larry Haymer; Stephanie Haymer Perkins; and Bertha Lee Winters.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 3, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Pat M. Barrett, Jr., Lexington, Isaac K. Byrd, Jr., Hiawatha Northington, Jackson, attorneys for appellees.

Before SMITH, P.J., WALLER and CARLSON, JJ.


SMITH, Presiding Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. This case comes to the Court on appeal following a long, arduous process in the courts of Holmes County. It stems from a September 14, 1994, accident where a locomotive belonging to Illinois Central Railroad ("ICR") collided with a vehicle driven by LouBertha Cox and occupied by two of her sons, Terry Hawkins ("Terry") and Christopher Hawkins ("Christopher"). Cox and her two sons died in the collision. A wrongful...

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