Incoming Mississippi U.S. Senator Faces Livestock Lawsuit

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – An incoming U.S. Senator from Mississippi, and her husband are facing a lawsuit that claims one of their horses wandered onto a highway, and caused a wreck.

Cindy Hyde-Smith, Agriculture Commissioner,
Incoming U.S Senator

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, sued the couple in March 2016, seeking to recover just over $3,900, that the company paid to one of its customers, for damage to a vehicle that hit a horse in 2015.

Cindy Hyde-Smith and Michael Smith, who are cattle farmers in Brookhaven, deny any negligence.

A December trial is set in Lincoln County Circuit Court. Hyde-Smith is the Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner.

She was appointed by Governor Phil Bryant last week, to succeed longtime senator Thad Cochran, who is resigning Sunday because of health concerns.

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