A partnership may sue or be sued in the partnership name, or in the names of the individuals composing the partnership, or both and service of process on any partner shall be sufficient to maintain the suit against all the partners so as to bind the assets of the partnership and of the individual summoned.
Miss. Code Ann. § 13-3-55
Suits by or against partnerships; service on one of several partners
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 737 F. Supp. 962 - Oxford Mall Co. v. K & B MISSISSIPPI CORP. (1990)
Most recently applied in 70 So. 3d 190 - Nelson v. Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi, Inc. (September 2011)
Codes, 1880, § 1519; 1892, § 3436; 1906, § 3935; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2942; 1930, § 2988; 1942, § 1869; Laws, 1977, ch. 405, eff from and after April 1, 1977.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.