Any county may sue and be sued by its name, and suits against the county shall be instituted in any court having jurisdiction of the amount sitting at the county site; but suit shall not be brought by the county without the authority of the board of supervisors, except as otherwise provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-45-17
County may sue and be sued
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 557 So. 2d 780 - Harrison County v. City of Gulfport (1990)
Most recently applied in Frisby v. City of Gulfport (May 2013)
Codes, 1857, ch. 59, art. 34; 1871, § 1384; 1880, § 2175; 1892, § 290; 1906 § 309; Hemingway’s 1917, § 3682; 1930, § 270; 1942, § 2955.
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