HURST v. SOUTHWEST MISS. LEGAL SERVICES CORP.

No. 94-CT-00196-SCT.

708 So.2d 1347 (1998)

Geraldine HURST, executrix for the Estate of Josie Connerly; Geraldine Hurst and Kenneth Hurst v. SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION and Hilda Burnett Baker.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry L. Mills, Carolyn B. Mills, William A. Pyle, Pyle Dreher Mills & Dye, Jackson, for Appellants.

Tomie T. Green, John L. Walker, Walker Walker & Green, Jackson, for Appellees.

En Banc.


ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI

BANKS, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. This matter is before the Court on petition for certiorari from the Mississippi Court of Appeals. We granted certiorari to address a question of broad public importance in regard to Mississippi's punitive damages statute. Our recent decision in American Funeral Assurance Co. v. Hubbs, 700 So.2d 283 (Miss. 1997), determined that Miss...

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