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STONE COUNTY v. STONE CTY. HOSP. AMBULANCE

No. 2009-CA-01550-COA.

64 So.3d 507 (2010)

STONE COUNTY, Mississippi and Stone County Board of Supervisors, Appellants v. STONE COUNTY HOSPITAL AMBULANCE SERVICE, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied April 12, 2011.

Certiorari Denied June 30, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Matthews Jr. , attorney for appellants.

Joe Sam Owen , Gulfport, attorney for appellee.

Before LEE, P.J., GRIFFIS and MAXWELL, JJ.

MAXWELL, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. Mississippi has a statutory preference for private ambulance services over public ones. And a county cannot contract with a public service if there is an adequate private service operating in the county. Here, Stone County Hospital (Hospital) created a private ambulance service, Stone County Ambulance Service (SCAS), in order to be awarded Stone County's 2008 annual ambulance-service contract. But after a dispute arose between...

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