Ashley Darville v. Hector Mejia

¶24. The Mississippi Supreme Court has emphasized that a “trial court’s finding of fact on the existence of good cause for the delay in service of process has been deemed ‘a discretionary ruling and entitled to deferential revieiv’ on appeal;”5 Therefore, “we ... only examine ‘whether the trial court abused its discretion and whether there was substantial evidence supporting the determination.’ ”61 dissent because, applying our deferential standard of review, I cannot say that the trial court abused its discretion by finding that Dar-ville failed to establish good cause or erred by dismissing…