SAUCIER v. BILOXI REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

No. 97-CA-00079-SCT.

708 So.2d 1351 (1998)

Patrick SAUCIER, Through his next friend, Virginia SAUCIER and Virginia Saucier, individually v. BILOXI REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, City of Biloxi, Mississippi and Cynthia H. Bamburg.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Myers, Jr., Joe Sam Owen, Owen & Galloway, Gulfport, for Appellants.

George F. Bloss, III, Richard W. Sliman, Mary Margaret Alexander, Bryant Clark Dukes Blakeslee Ramsay & Hammond, Gulfport, Robert H. Tyler, Biloxi, Dee Aultman, Aultman Tyner McNeece & Ruffin, Gulfport, for appellees.

Before SULLIVAN, P.J., and BANKS and MILLS, JJ.


BANKS, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. Here, we are called upon to assess the duty of care owed one who breaks into vacant premises and consumes controlled substances found therein. We conclude that the plaintiff was, in fact, a trespasser, that the trial court applied the correct duty of care in resolving this matter based upon the evidence shown and that summary judgment was proper. Thus, we affirm.

I.

¶ 2. On or about July 21, 1993, sixteen...

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