McMILLAN v. PUCKETT

No. 94-IA-00166-SCT.

678 So.2d 652 (1996)

Dr. Beverly A. McMILLAN and Mississippi Baptist Medical Center v. Thomas D. PUCKETT and Tamara L. Puckett, Individually and on Behalf of the Wrongful Death Heirs of Sandra L. Puckett, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied August 22, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Al Nuzzo, Markow Walker Reeves & Anderson, Jackson; Alan C. Goodman, Williams Jelliffe & Arnold, Ridgeland; Cary E. Bufkin, Eugene R. Naylor, Shell Buford Bufkin Callicutt & Perry, Jackson, for appellants.

Crymes G. Pittman, Robert G. Germany, Pittman Germany Roberts & Welsh, Jackson, for appellees.

En Banc.


McRAE, Justice, for the Court:

In this Interlocutory Appeal from an order of the Leake County Circuit Court denying the appellants' motion for a change of venue, we are asked to consider where venue is proper in a wrongful death action. We find that the circuit court correctly ruled that venue was proper in Leake County, where Sandra Puckett died, and conclude that a wrongful death action may be brought in the county where the death occurred, thus commencing the cause...

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