An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court from any final judgment of a circuit or chancery court in a civil case, not being a judgment by default, by any of the parties or legal representatives of such parties; and in no case shall such appeal be held to vacate the judgment or decree.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-51-3
Appeals to Supreme Court
Applied in 38 court decisions — leading case M. L. B. v. S. L. J. (1996)
Most recently applied in 153 So. 3d 728 - William L. Peebles v. Sandra A. Peebles (December 2014)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 54, art. 34; 1857, ch. 62, art. 103; 1871, § 410; 1880, § 2309; 1892, § 32; 1906, § 33; Hemingway’s 1917, § 8; 1930, § 13; 1942, § 1147; Laws, 1991…
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