Cunningham v. Mitchell

ROBERTSON, Justice,

for the Court:

I

This matter raises questions regarding the time limitations within which a minor must perfect an appeal to this Court and the extent to which we may reconsider an order dismissing an appeal which has become final.

II

The record before us reveals a tortured procedural history. We begin in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Mississippi. *591On June 28, 1985, Tiffany Michelle Cunningham, an infant, by and through her next friend, Patricia Cunningham, her mother, filed her complaint in a cause of medical malpractice. Patricia Cunningham and Charles Cunningham,…