MASON

v.

GLENN-COLUSA IRRIGATION DISTRICT

Citator

Cited By

• Vardaman S. Dunn v. Koehring Co., 546 F.2d 1193 (5th Cir. 1977)
  …as to amount to willfulness on the part of the wrongdoer.” Roberts v. Pierce, 398 F. 2d 954, 957 (C.A.5, 1968); Lee v. Southern Home Sites Corp., 429 F. 2d 290 (C.A.5, 1970); Atkinson v. Dixie Greyhound Lines, 143 F. 2d 477 (C.A. 5.), cert. denied, 323 U.S. 758, 65 S.Ct. 92, 89 L.Ed. 607 (1944); Illinois Central R. Co. v. Ramsay, 157 Miss. 83, 127 So. 725 (1930); Woodall v. Ross, 317 So. 2d 892 (Miss.1975). The district court found Koehring’s conduct fit the Mississippi test for punitive damages. We agree…
• TYE v. Hertz Drivurself Stations, Inc., 173 F.2d 317 (3d Cir. 1949)
  …e plaintiff is entitled to further damages. The plaintiff accepts this construction of the orders and, in support thereof, relies on Atkinson v. Dixie Greyhound Lines, 5 Cir., 1944, 143 F. 2d 477, certiorari denied Dixie Greyhound Lines v. Atkinson, 323 U.S. 758, 65 S.Ct. 92, 89 L.Ed. 607. We think the fear of the defendant is groundless, and .the contention of the plaintiff untenable. The confusion of the parties stems from the fact that the only issue tried before the District Judge who granted the new t…
• Colonial Leasing OF NEW England, Inc. v. Logistics Control Int'l, 770 F.2d 479 (5th Cir. 1985)
  …59(a) “[a] new trial may be granted to all or any of the parties and on all or part of the issues____” This authority of the district court is also vested in courts of appeals. Atkinson v. Dixie Greyhound, 143 F. 2d 477, 479 (5th Cir.), cert. den., 323 U.S. 758, 65 S.Ct. 92, 89 L.Ed. 607 (1944); see also 28 U.S.C. § 2106. Courts of appeals have a broad discretion when new trials are granted to do so on all or some of the issues. Hasbrouck v. Texaco, Inc., 663 F. 2d 930 (9th Cir.), cert. den., 459 U.S. 828,…