KLAAS v. CONTINENTAL SOUTHERN

No. 39723.

225 Miss. 94 (1955)

82 So.2d 705

KLAAS v. CONTINENTAL SOUTHERN LINES, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 10, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hedgepeth, Ewing & Hedgepeth, Jackson; Hermon Dean, Canton, for appellants.

Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, for appellees.


ETHRIDGE, J.

The question is whether the 1952 statute providing for contribution between joint tort feasors is applicable to judgments rendered before that date, but which are affirmed on appeal and payment of them made by one judgment debtor after the statute went into effect. We do not think it is.

These two cases have been consolidated. On September 16, 1950, Clarence Klaas was killed in an automobile accident...

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