Southern v. Mississippi State Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• The MTCA affords “the exclusive civil remedy against a governmental entity or its employee for acts or omissions which give rise to a suit” under Mississippi law.
• “The role of an appellate court is not to be a fact finder but rather determine and apply the law to the facts determined by the trier of fact.”
• “A trial judge cannot be put in error on a matter not presented to him. This Court repeatedly has held that issues not raised at trial cannot be raised on appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).