MISSISSIPPI TRANSP. COM'N v. JENKINS

No. 94-IA-00905-SCT.

699 So.2d 597 (1997)

MISSISSIPPI TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION v. Mildred JENKINS and Mobile Medical Ambulance Service, Inc.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 18, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Richard E. Wilbourn, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for Appellant.

Carroll Rhodes, Hazlehurt, Gail Wright Lowery, Lowery & Castilla, Jackson, John P. Sneed, Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, Robert T. Higginbotham, Jr., Armstrong Allen Prewitt Gentry Johnston & Holmes, Jackson, for Appellees.

En Banc.


SMITH, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. The Mississippi Transportation Commission appeals the interlocutory ruling of the Hinds County Circuit Court wherein the trial court denied the Commission's motions to be dismissed as a party to the suit on the basis of the doctrine of sovereign immunity. We reverse and render the ruling of the trial court because sovereign immunity applies to both motions at issue in this appeal.

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