Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Co. v. Boxley

Citations

• 103 Miss. 489
• 60 So. 645

Syllabus

<p>1. Action for Damages. Exemplary damages. Appeal and error. Record.</p> <p>In an action for the death of an employee, where the evidence showed that he was on top of a car of logs with other workmen, under the direction of the- foreman, attempting to unload the logs, when they slipped and began to roll, and threw him to the ground, a log falling upon him crushing his skull, and causing instant death, an instruction denying punitive damages was properly given.</p> <p>2. Appeal and Error. Record. Brief of ■counsel. Discrepancy.</p> <p>Where on appeal to the Supreme Court the briefs of counsel and the record differ as to the form in which a verdict was rendered in the. court below, the court will be governed by the record.</p>