Delta Electric Light, Power & Manufacturing Co. v. Employer's Liability Assurance Corp.

Mississippi Supreme Court

Delta Electric Light, Power & Manufacturing Co. v. Employer's Liability Assurance Corp.

60 So. 213, 103 Miss. 255

Mississippi Supreme Court·Decided October 15, 1912·Published

Opinion

Cook, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The parties to this suit seem to have agreed to submit the case to the jury upon the question as to whether the automobile struck the street car or the street car struck the automobile. By taking the instructions complained of by appellant together with instructions given for defendant in the court below, and reading all in connection with the evidence in this case, it seems to us that this-question was fairly presented to the jury, and there is no reason to suspect that the jury were misled as to the real issue in the case. Appellant’s counsel place too much stress upon the supposed discriminative power of the ordinary petit jury.

Affirmed,

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Cook, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The parties to this suit seem to have agreed to submit the case to the jury upon the question as to whether the automobile struck the street car or the street car struck the automobile. By taking the instructions complained of by appellant together with instructions given for defendant in the court below, and reading all in connection with the evidence in this case, it seems to us that this-question was fairly presented to the jury, and there is no reason to suspect that the jury were misled as to the real issue in the case. Appellant’s counsel place too much stress upon the supposed discriminative power of the ordinary petit jury.

Affirmed,

Delta Electric Light, Power & Manufacturing Co. v. Employer's Liability Assurance Corp., 60 So. 213, 103 Miss. 255 (Mich. 1912).

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