Legal Opinion
Sweatt v. Murphy
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided January 28, 1999No. 97-CA-00638-SCTPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
733 So.2d 207 (1999)
Steven Leslie SWEATT
v.
Paul MURPHY and Therese Murphy.
No. 97-CA-00638-SCT.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
January 28, 1999.
Derek Arthur Wyatt, Gulfport, Attorney for Appellant.
Bobby Atkinson, James R. Foster, II, Gulfport, Attorneys for Appellees.
EN BANC.
PRATHER, Chief Justice, for the Court:
STATEMENT OF THE FACTS AND CASE
¶ 1. In April, 1995 Steven Sweatt ("Sweatt") and his wife began renting a house in Gulfport from Paul and Therese Murphy. On April 30, 1995, Sweatt was injured on the property when a porch swing on which he was sitting fell due to a failure in the hook which…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- O'CAIN v. Harvey Freeman and Sons, Inc.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1991
- Hill v. London, Stetelman, & Kirkwood, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Wright v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1994
- Winston Hill and Ila Mae Hill, as Co-Administrators of the Estate of Harvey Hill, Deceased v. London, Stetelman, and Kirkwood, Inc., Margaret Denmark Foster, as Administratrix of the Estate of Johnny Clark Carpenter, Deceased v. London, Stetelman, and Kirkwood, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
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