Brown v. Tate

BARNES, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This case arose when Ponta Properties Inc. (Ponta)1 filed a complaint in the Lauderdale County Chancery Court in May 2005 for a partition of real property against A. Phillip Brown II (A.P. Brown), Charles Naylor, Crystal Naylor, Rosalynn Naylor, Glen Brown, Brenda Brown Gordon, Billy Jean Brown, Dorothy Jean Love, Arthur Love, and Alfreda King (Defendants), who each owned an interest in the subject property. Tate contends that all of the Defendants but one, Brenda Gordon, were properly served with process *746under Mississippi Rule of Civil Procedure 81, either…