Legal Opinion
Pruett v. City of Rosedale
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided November 10, 1982No. 53222PublishedCited by 170 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
421 So.2d 1046 (1982)
Keith PRUETT
v.
CITY OF ROSEDALE, Mississippi.
No. 53222.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
November 10, 1982.
W. Allen Pepper, Jr., Cleveland, for appellant.
Walls, Buck & Irving, Tyree Irving, Greenville, for appellee.
En Banc.
BOWLING, Justice, for the Court:
This cause involves the abolition of the judicially created principle of sovereign immunity. The appeal is from the Circuit Court of Bolivar County. Appellant Keith Pruett filed his tort action against the City of Rosedale contending he was injured through the negligence of the city. Appellee, the city, filed a demurrer which…
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