5 for the plaintiff reads: The court instructs the jury for the plaintiff, Sylvia White, that it is the law of the State of Mississippi for all trailers being towed on a public highway to have safety chains or equivalent devices in addition to the regular hitch or coupling; and that such safety chains must be of sufficient strength to control the trailer in the event the trailer hitch becomes disconnected, and if you believe from the evidence in this case that the defendant, U-Haul Company, did not have safety chains sufficient in strength to hold and control the trailer being towed by Mrs. Elizabeth Dulin, then the defendant is guilty of negligence. Section 8269(a), Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated (Supp.1968), provides: Every trailer which shall be towed on the public highways 1959) (<HOLDING>). In order to capitalize on the violation of a
holding that the determination of whether a counterclaim is compulsory is made as a matter of law holding that it may be decided as a matter of law holding that violation of state law was not a per se constitutional violation holding that a violation of a statute governing the changing of traffic lanes by motor vehicles is negligence as a matter of law holding that a violation of a rightofway statute is negligence as a matter of law