If a person liable to any personal action shall fraudulently conceal the cause of action from the knowledge of the person entitled thereto, the cause of action shall be deemed to have first accrued at, and not before, the time at which such fraud shall be, or with reasonable diligence might have been, first known or discovered.
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-67
Effect of fraudulent concealment of cause of action
Applied in 88 court decisions — leading case 850 So. 2d 78 - Stephens v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of US (2003)
Most recently applied in Stringer v. Remington Arms (November 2022)
Codes, 1857, ch. 57, art. 14; 1871, § 2158; 1880, § 2679; 1892, § 2749; 1906, § 3109; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2473; 1930, § 2312; 1942, § 742.
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