SALTS v. GULF NAT. LIFE INS. CO.

No. 97-IA-01183-SCT.

743 So.2d 371 (1999)

Michael SALTS, Alice Marie Salts and Salts Funeral Home, Inc. v. GULF NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY d/b/a Selected Funeral Insurance Company; Chief Executive Officer Jerry O'Keefe, as President of Gulf National Life Insurance Company, and Individually; James C. Maxey, as President of Gulf National Life Insurance Company, and Individually; Prentiss Funeral Directors, Inc. d/b/a Booneville Funeral Home; Phillip Duncan, Individually, and as Owner of Prentiss Funeral Directors, Inc. d/b/a Booneville Funeral Home; Stan Howell, as an Employee of Prentiss Funeral Directors, Inc. d/b/a Booneville Funeral Home, and Individually; William McDonald, as an Employee of Prentiss Funeral Directors, Inc. d/b/a Booneville Funeral Home, and Individually.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 19, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talmadge D. Littlejohn, New Albany, Attorney for Appellants.

Joseph C. Langston, Booneville, Michael S. Allred, Jackson, William W. Bushing, Dennis C. Sweet, III, Mark H. Tyson, Laura H. Tedder, Jackson, Christi R. McCoy, Iuka, Sam E. Scott, Michael A. Heilman, Jackson, Marc A. Biggers, Greenwood, Attorneys for Appellees.

BEFORE PITTMAN, P.J., McRAE AND SMITH, JJ.


SMITH, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. On January 30, 1990, the Appellant-Plaintiffs, Michael Salts, Alice Marie Salts and Salts Funeral Home, Inc., (hereinafter as the "Salts") and the Appellee-Defendants, Gulf National Life Insurance Company (hereinafter as "Gulf National"), et al., entered into an exclusive written agreement. On June 28, 1996, the Salts filed suit in the First Judicial District of Hinds County for breach of contract alleging that Gulf National...

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