CITY OF CHEROKEE v. PARSONS

No. 2005-IA-02003-SCT.

944 So.2d 886 (2006)

CITY OF CHEROKEE, Alabama; City of Cherokee Police Chief Paul Norman and Paul Norman, Individually; City of Cherokee Police Officer Jerry McClurg and Jerry McClurg, Individually; Colbert County, Alabama; Colbert County Sheriff Ronnie May and Ronnie May, Individually; and Colbert County Deputy Bill Mays and Bill Mays, Individually v. Dennis Ray PARSONS, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied January 4, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin E. Griffith, Cleveland, attorney for appellants.

Drayton D. Berkley, attorney for appellees.

Before SMITH, C.J., DIAZ and RANDOLPH, JJ.


RANDOLPH, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. A high speed chase into Mississippi involving Alabama governmental defendants, resulted in this interlocutory appeal, which was granted exclusively on the issue of in personam jurisdiction.

FACTS

¶ 2. On February 21, 2002, at approximately 10:44 p.m., a high speed pursuit of three fleeing felony suspects commenced in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The chase first involved numerous Alabama and later Mississippi...

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