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Duncan v. Perkins

Supreme Court of Mississippi
Dec 19, 1966
192 So. 2d 386 (Miss. 1966)

Opinion

No. 44165.

December 5, 1966. Suggestion of Error Overruled December 19, 1966.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Lowndes County; John D. Greene, Jr., J.

Stone McBryde, Columbus, for appellants.

Sims Sims, Columbus, for appellees.


Affirmed.


ON SUGGESTION OF ERROR


This Court affirmed a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lowndes County, Mississippi, in favor of E. Gladstone Perkins and his wife for money lost in a gambling game. The suit was brought under the authority of Mississippi Code Annotated section 24 (1956), and, of course, the jury was the trier of facts and the judge of the amount lost. We found no error in the record shown in the trial worthy of discussion and for that reason no opinion was written.

The appellants' suggestion of error simply requests this Court to write an opinion. We have reread the original briefs, and since this is not a case in which this Court is required to write an opinion to settle "important principles", we now decline to detail the reasons we are convinced that the judgment of the trial court should be sustained.

It is utterly impossible to write opinions in every case appealed to this Court, and for that reason the law only requires opinions to be written in a limited category of cases. Mississippi Code Annotated section 1963 (1956).

Suggestion of error overruled.

ETHRIDGE, C.J., and PATTERSON, SMITH and ROBERTSON, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Duncan v. Perkins

Supreme Court of Mississippi
Dec 19, 1966
192 So. 2d 386 (Miss. 1966)
Case details for

Duncan v. Perkins

Case Details

Full title:S.W. DUNCAN and Vernon Brown v. E. Gladstone PERKINS et ux

Court:Supreme Court of Mississippi

Date published: Dec 19, 1966

Citations

192 So. 2d 386 (Miss. 1966)

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