Legal Opinion
Burns v. Burns
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided January 13, 1988No. 56500PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
518 So.2d 1205 (1988)
Betty BURNS
v.
Erit Lamar BURNS.
No. 56500.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
January 13, 1988.
C. Collier Carlton, Jr., John B. Riemenschneider, Farese, Farese & Farese, Ashland, for appellant.
James H. Mathis, Corinth, for appellee.
En Banc.
PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:
At issue in this appeal is the question of continuance of the judicially imposed rule of interspousal immunity in Mississippi. The Circuit Court of Alcorn, on a motion for judgment on the pleadings, dismissed a complaint filed by Betty Burns, against her husband, Erit Lamar Burns for an alleged assault and…
Also in this document: Dissent.
2Cases cited79 opinions
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