City of Jackson v. Williamson

2 Citing cases

  1. Mississippi Dept. of Mental Health v. Hall

    2004 CA 1522 (Miss. 2006)   Cited 78 times
    Holding that " hospital is under a duty to exercise reasonable care to safeguard the patient from any known or reasonably apprehensible danger from herself and to exercise such reasonable care for her safety as her mental and physical condition, if known, may require"

    See Miss. Transp. Comm'n v. Ronald Adams Contr., Inc., 753 So.2d 1077, 1094 (Miss. 2000) (adopting plurality opinion in City of Jackson v. Williamson, 740 So.2d 818, 821 (Miss. 1999)). Public policy also demands that governmental entities covered by the MTCA pay post-judgment interest:

  2. Illinois Central R. Co. v. Hawkins

    2001 CA 1124 (Miss. 2002)   Cited 47 times
    Holding that the plaintiff's vague statements concerning visits to a psychiatrist could not support damages for emotional distress

    This Court has upheld the constitutionality of this statute, Miss. Code Ann. ยง 11-3-23 (2002), many times. City ofJackson v. Williamson, 740 So.2d 818, 823 (Miss. 1999); Wallace v.Jones, 360 So.2d 932, 933-34 (Miss. 1978); Antley v. Mississippi StateHighway Comm'n, 318 So.2d 847, 850 (Miss.