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SULLIVAN v. SUMRALL BY RITCHEY

No. 90-IA-0244.

618 So.2d 1274 (1993)

Bobbie SULLIVAN, R.N. v. Effie SUMRALL, By and Through her Natural Daughter, Tommie Ritchey, and Thomas Sumrall, Individually.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 13, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Robert Ramsay, Nancy E. Steen, Bryant Clark Dukes Blakeslee Ramsay & Hammond, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

Ben F. Galloway, Owen Galloway & Clark, Gulfport, W. Dal Williamson, Caves Williamson & Caves, Laurel, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and SULLIVAN and McRAE, JJ.

McRAE, Justice, for the court:

In this interlocutory appeal from the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County we are asked to consider whether a nurse employed by a county hospital is shielded by public official qualified immunity from a medical negligence action brought against her individually. Bobbie Sullivan raised the defense of qualified immunity and/or absolute immunity pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 41-13-11, et seq. (Supp. 1991)....

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