WEINER v. MEREDITH

No. 2005-CA-02329-SCT.

943 So.2d 692 (2006)

Roger WEINER, M.D. v. Scotty A. MEREDITH, Coahoma County Coroner.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 30, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark P. Caraway, Cory Louis Radicioni, Jackson, attorneys for appellant.

Tom T. Ross, Jr., Clarksdale, attorney for appellee.

EN BANC.


DICKINSON, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. Following his patient's death, a physician completed a death certificate stating that the cause of death was congestive heart failure due to coronary artery disease. Thereafter, the county coroner filed a death certificate which proclaimed the cause of death to be closed head trauma. The physician who disagreed with the coroner's finding petitioned the chancery court for an amendment to the death certificate which had been...

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