Gentry v. Wallace

How courts have described this case

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

• notwithstanding the express terms of § 15-1-36(1), the statute of limitations for wrongful death could not begin to run prior to the death that is the basis for the suit
• \a claim sounding in wrongful death comes into being upon the death of the deceased\
• overruled on other grounds by Jenkins v. Pensacola Health Trust, Inc., 933 So. 2d 923, 926 (Miss. 2006)
• “Thus, at common law, the wrongful death cause of action did not exist.”
• reviewing history of the wrongful death cause of action
• reviewing history of the wrongful death cause of action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).