Pioneer Community Hospital of Newton v. Tyteanna D. Roberts

MAXWELL, JUSTICE,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. The case before us involves timeliness of a wrongful-death action and the interplay between the wrongful-death statute 1 and the minors savings clause. 2 In 1999, this Court held “[tjhere is no question now that the savings clause, set out in [Section] 15-1-59 of the Mississippi Code, applies to a wrongful death action” brought under Section 11-7-13 of the Mis sissippi Code. Thiroux ex rel. Cruz v. Austin ex rel. Arceneaux, 749 So.2d 1040, 1041 (Miss. 1999). But just three years later, this Court found reason not to apply the minors savings clause to the…