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SPARKS v. KIM

No. 94-CA-00948-SCT.

701 So.2d 1113 (1997)

Pat SPARKS, individually and on behalf of The Heirs at Law and Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Will Holmes, Deceased, and Kimberly Taylor, a minor, by and Through Cathy Taylor, her natural Mother and Guardian v. Myung KIM, Juan Santos, John Dial, John Berry, William Tumlinson, Medical Doctors; John Doe, Betty Doe, Richard Roe, Unknown Medical Doctors, Nurses, Officers and/or Employees of Mississippi Department of Corrections; Leroy Black, Commissioner of Mississippi Department Of Corrections; and Steve Puckett, individually and a Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 13, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis Turnage, Cleveland, for Appellants.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, John L. Clay, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for Appellees.

En Banc.

PRATHER, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

I. STATEMENT OF THE FACTS AND CASE

¶ 1. Will Holmes, an inmate in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, died of meningitis at Parchman Hospital on November 18, 1991. He became ill on November 7, 1991 and was allowed by the prison doctors to absent himself from work. Holmes was given Tylenol and other relatively minor treatments, which failed to improve his condition. Holmes was taken to...

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