Collins v. General Electric Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing the general rule, but choosing not to apply it because the plaintiff in that case had filed suit under a trade name
• “[I]in every action there must be a real plaintiff who is a person in law and who is possessed of a legal entity and capacity to sue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tinnin v. First United Bank of Miss.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-11-07· cited 58×
• Southern Trucking Serv. Inc. v. MISS. SAND & GRAVEL, INC.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-01-29· cited 18×
• Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Pete
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-06-19· cited 5×
• Chaney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-12-18· cited 5×
• Staley v. Brown
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1964-12-07· cited 1×
• Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC v. Mary Pittman
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-08-29
• Jourdan River Estates, LLC v. Scott M. Favre
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2019-09-26
• Stone County v. Stone County Hospital Ambulance Service
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-12-14
• Nungesser Industries LLC v. City of Jackson, Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2019-12-10

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tombigbee Electric Power Ass'n v. Gandy
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1953-02-02· cited 48×
• Shivers v. Biloxi-Gulfport Daily Herald
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1959-04-06· cited 17×
• HULITT v. Jones
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1954-05-03· cited 12×