When the legal title to property or a right in action is in an executor, administrator, guardian, or other trustee, the time during which any statute of limitations runs against such trustee shall be computed against the person beneficially interested in such property or right in action, although such person may be under disability and within the saving of any statute of limitations; and may be availed of in any suit or actions by such person.
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-53
Effect of running of statute of limitations against executor, administrator, guardian, or other trustee, as against beneficiary
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 809 So. 2d 647 - USF&G CO. v. Conservatorship of Melson (2002)
Most recently applied in Pioneer Community Hospital of Newton v. Tyteanna D. Roberts (March 2017)
Codes, 1880, § 2694; 1892, § 2761; 1906, § 3123; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2487; 1930, § 2297; 1942, § 727.
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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.