Legal Opinion
Creel v. BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE NO. AM. TIRE
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided March 8, 2007No. 2005-CA-01875-SCTPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
¶ 1. In this appeal we are asked to consider the propriety of the Jefferson County Circuit Court's transfer of a suit to Rankin County and the Rankin County Circuit Court's subsequent grant of summary judgment to defendants. Because we have mandated that plaintiffs misjoined under Miss. R. Civ. P. 20 must be dismissed without prejudice and that judicially articulated rules on severance and transfer will be applied retroactively on appeal, the Jefferson County Circuit Court erred in transferring the case to Rankin County. Instead, the circuit court should have dismissed the case without…
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