All questions of negligence and contributory negligence shall be for the jury to determine.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-7-17
Questions of negligence and contributory negligence for jury
Applied in 22 court decisions — leading case Suter v. San Angelo Foundry & MacHine Company (1979)
Most recently applied in 69 So. 3d 773 - Smith v. WAGGONERS TRUCKING CORP. (August 2011)
Codes, Hemingway’s 1917, § 503; 1930, § 512; 1942, § 1455; Laws, 1910, ch. 135; Laws, 1920, ch. 312.
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