Mock v. Hines

Citations

• 125 Miss. 111
• 87 So. 423

Syllabus

<p>Trial. Party suing for Mocking of crossing cannot testify to length of Mocking in rebuttal.</p> <p>Where a suit for personal injury is predicated upon blocking a crossing for more than the statutory period, and the plaintiff testifies as-to the injury and introduces an ordinance prohibiting the blocking of a street crossing for more than five minutes, but fails to testify in his chief examination that the crossing was blocked longer than five minutes, he is not entitled to testify to such fact in rebuttal by reason of section 1985, Code of 1906 (Hemingway’s Code, section 1645).</p>