Khambraya Stanley v. Scott Petroleum Corporation

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

WALLER, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. The two plaintiffs in this ease were struck by a vehicle while standing at a walk-up window paying for fuel at a gas station owned by Scott Petroleum Corporation. The trial court granted Scott Petroleum’s motion for summary judgment, denying the plaintiffs’ request for a continuance under Mississippi Rule of Civil Procedure 56(f). The Court of Appeals affirmed. We granted the plaintiffs’ petition for writ of certiorari to address whether the trial court erred in refusing to grant a Rule 56(f) continuance prior to granting summary…