TOWNSEND v. ESTATE OF GILBERT

No. 90-CA-0899.

616 So.2d 333 (1993)

James M. TOWNSEND, individually, as Representative and Administrator of the Estate of Pearlie Mae Townsend, Deceased v. The ESTATE OF Louis S. GILBERT, III, Deceased, and Wayne S. Orr, Chancery Clerk of Coahoma County and Administrator of the Estate of Louis S. Gilbert, III, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 1, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyree Irving, Greenwood, for appellant.

Andrew N. Alexander, III, Lake Tindall Hunger & Thackston, Greenville, for appellee.

Before PRATHER, P.J., and PITTMAN and SMITH, JJ.


PITTMAN, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal is from Coahoma County Circuit Court wherein summary judgment was granted to the appellees Estate of Gilbert et al. Townsend filed a wrongful death action against the Estate of Gilbert, et al., alleging that Gilbert's negligence caused the death of Pearlie Mae Townsend. Frank P. Foster, chancery clerk in Coahoma County, was appointed administrator of the Gilbert Estate and was later succeeded by Wayne S. Orr as both chancery...

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