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MISSISSIPPI STATE HOSP. v. WOOD

No. 2001-CA-00588-COA.

823 So.2d 598 (2002)

MISSISSIPPI STATE HOSPITAL, Appellant, v. Rena WOOD, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

August 6, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Streetman, III, Jackson, Steffanie Anne Graves, attorneys for Appellant.

John W. Chapman, Brandon, attorney for Appellee.

Before McMILLIN, C.J., LEE, and BRANTLEY, JJ.

McMILLIN, C.J., for the court.

¶ 1. Rena Wood filed a wrongful death action against the Mississippi State Hospital (MSH), claiming that the hospital violated the standard of care in providing inpatient psychiatric treatment to her nineteen-year old daughter, April Wood, and that this sub-standard care was a proximate contributing cause to April Wood's death by suicide. The case was tried without jury before the Circuit Court of Rankin County and the court entered...

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