Rhoda v. Weathers

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

WALLER, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In 2004, Marvin Rhoda and Edith Weathers were involved in an automobile collision in Southaven, Mississippi. Rhoda sued Weathers, alleging negligence, and the jury returned a verdict for Weathers. The Court of Appeals affirmed the jury’s verdict, but reversed and remanded the trial court’s refusal to assess sanctions against Weathers for failing to admit to certain requests made by Rhoda in discovery. This Court granted Weathers’s petition for writ of certiorari to address only the issue of sanctions against Weathers. We now…