Housing Authority of Jackson v. Lampley

¶ 15. The majority vacates and remands the decision of the trial court and in the process avoids addressing the first impression issue which should be controlling in this case, i.e., whether notice of claim pursuant to Miss.Code Ann. § 11-46-11 which *138was served on the Jackson Housing Authority by allegedly sending a letter to then City of Jackson Mayor Kane Ditto is sufficient substantial compliance when the Jackson Housing Authority is by statute a separate governmental entity requiring service of the notice upon someone in authority of that separate entity. Miss.Code Ann. § 43-33-5 (1993).

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