Any person, natural or artificial, injured or damaged by a trust and combine as herein defined, or by its effects direct or indirect, may recover all damages of every kind sustained by him or it and in addition a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500.00), by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction. Said suit may be brought against one or more of the parties to the trust or combine and one or more of the officers and representatives of any corporation a party to the same, or one or more of either. Such penalty may be recovered in each instance of injury. All recoveries herein provided for may be sued for in one suit.
Miss. Code Ann. § 75-21-9
Private persons and corporations may sue
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Company (1982)
Most recently applied in Supreme Auto Transp., LLC v. Arcelor Mittal USA, Inc. (September 2018)
Codes, 1892, § 4440; 1906, § 5007; Hemingway’s 1917, § 3289; 1930, § 3440; 1942, § 1092; Laws, 1926, ch. 182.
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