Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. Walters
| Decision Date | 17 February 1964 |
| Docket Number | No. 42657,42657 |
| Citation | 248 Miss. 206,160 So.2d 908 |
| Court | Mississippi Supreme Court |
| Parties | MISSISSIPPI POWER & LIGHT COMPANY et al. v. W. R. WALTERS. |
Wise, Smith & Carter, Green, Green & Chency, Bethel Ferguson, Forrest B. Jackson, Daniel, Coker & Horton, Fred J. Lotterhos, Jr., Jackson, Huff & Huff and O. B. Triplett, Jr., Forest, for appellants.
Roy Noble Lee, James W. Lee, Forest, Bob Ray, Jackson, for appellee.
The lower court rendered a judgment in this case on March 10, 1962, in favor of the appellee W. R. Walters against the appellant Mississippi Power & Light Company and its two codefendants, Cities Service Oil Company and Larco Drilling Company, for the sum of $25,000. This Court on November 25, 1963, affirmed the judgment of the lower court as to the appellant Mississippi Power & Light Company on condition that the appellee enter a remittitur of $10,000, thus reducing the judgment of $15,000. The appellee entered a remittitur, and a judgment was thereupon entered against the Mississippi Power & Light Company and the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company as surety on its supersedeas bond, for the sum of $15,000. The judgment of the lower court was reversed as to the appellant Cities Service Oil Company and Larco Drilling Company, and judgment was entered here in favor of those two appellants.
A motion has been filed by the appellee W. R. Walters to correct the final judgment rendered herein against the appellant, Mississippi Power & Light Company, so as to provide that the judgment for $15,000 shall bear interest from the date of the judgment of the lower court, and so as to provide that the costs of appeal to this Court be taxed one-half to the appellee W. R. Walters, and one-half to the appellant Mississippi Power & Light Company and its surety.
Since the filing of the above mentioned motion to correct judgment, the attorneys for the appellant Mississippi Power & Light Company and the attorneys for the appellee W. R. Walters have filed with the Clerk of this Court an agreement in writing for the entry of a corrected judgment whereby the appellee W. R. Walters shall have and recover interest on the $15,000 judgment affirmed by this Court from the date of the rendition of the judgment of the lower court, and whereby the costs of the appeal shall be taxed one-half to the appellee W. R. Walters and one-half to the appellant Mississippi Power & Light Company and its surety.
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