2015 Mississippi Code
Title 85 - DEBTOR-CREDITOR RELATIONSHIP
Chapter 3 - EXEMPT PROPERTY
§ 85-3-19 - Beneficiaries of deceased plaintiff take damages free from debts
Whenever suit was begun in the name of the party injured, and such party shall die while said suit is pending in any court, and said suit shall be revived in the name of the administrator, any sum finally recovered in any such suit, if such deceased left surviving a husband or wife, or children or father or mother, to whom such judgment shall be distributed, as may be provided by law, such wife or children, or father or mother, or husband who may be entitled to recover or receive such moneys shall take same free from all liabilities for the debts of the deceased, and also free from all liabilities for the debts of the person or persons, as above entitled to receive them.
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