LEWIS v. FOREST FAMILY PRAC. CLINIC, P.A.

No. 2011-CT-00828-SCT.

124 So.3d 654 (2013)

Barbara LEWIS, Individually, as Administratrix for the Estate of R. J. Lewis, and on Behalf of the Wrongful Death Beneficiaries for the Estate of R. J. Lewis v. FOREST FAMILY PRACTICE CLINIC, P.A. and John Paul Lee, M.D.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 31, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Howard Thigpen , attorney for appellant.

John Burley Howell, III , Mildred M. Morris , Timothy Lee Sensing , Jackson, attorneys for appellee.

EN BANC.


ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. The trial court granted the defendant's motion to dismiss because of insufficient service of process. The plaintiff appealed and the Court of Appeals reversed, holding that, even though service of process was improper, good cause existed under Mississippi Rule of Civil Procedure 4(h), and the action should not have been dismissed. We granted certiorari because the plaintiff...

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