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ENTERGY MISSISSIPPI, INC. v. HAYES

No. 2002-CA-00314-SCT.

874 So.2d 952 (2004)

ENTERGY MISSISSIPPI, INC. v. Carolyn January HAYES, Individually and as Administrator of The Estate of Lavonne Hayes, Deceased; Javary Lagman January and Lavonne Quintarious Hayes, Minors, by and through Carolyn January Hayes, Mother and Natural Guardian of Javary Lagman January and Lavonne Quintarious Hayes, Minors; and Alvonta Palmer and Tanquinika Palmer, Minors, by and through Bertha Palmer, Mother and Natural Guardian of Alvonta Palmer and Tanquinika Palmer, Minors.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied June 24, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Dunbar, Oxford, James W. Snider, Jackson, Walter Alan Davis, attorneys for appellant.

Warren Leon Conway, Gulfport, Marshall E. Sanders, Vicksburg, attorneys for appellees.

EN BANC.

SMITH, Chief Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. In this wrongful death case, the jury returned a verdict awarding damages to the beneficiaries of Lavonne Hayes, but the trial court reallocated fault and ordered a new trial on damages only. Entergy of Mississippi, Inc. (EMI) appealed the trial court's final order. We find that there was sufficient evidence of liability against EMI to support the jury verdict, that the trial court erred by reallocating to EMI all causal...

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