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205 Miss. 121

38 So.2d 454

Hawkins v. Stringer

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided January 24, 1949

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1949-01-24

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 1962

2 state decisions

Relies on Gooden v. Gage · Gulf, M. N.R. Co. v. Graham

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Decided 1949-01-24

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Hall, Justice

¶1 (concurring).

¶2 I concur in the majority opinion holding that the actual damages sustained by appellee, as proven by the evidence, are not sufficient to uphold a verdict for $5,700.

¶3 The facts of the case would have warranted the infliction of punitive damages, and, in my opinion, if punitive damages had been sued for, and if the issue thereon had been submitted to the jury, the verdict would not be excessive. Since the appellee did not sue for punitive damages, and did not request an instruction to the jury thereon, he cannot recover the same. Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Co. v. Graham, 153 Miss. 72, 117 So. 881. Therefore, appellee’s recovery on the first trial'is limited to the actual damages sustained by him, and I concur with the majority of the Court in holding that the actual damages proven are not sufficient to uphold the jury’s verdict.

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