Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-53-45 (2026)
Next friend of infant liable for costs
✓ current as of July 2026
If in any case the plaintiff or complainant be an infant suing by next friend, such next friend shall be liable for costs.
Codes, 1880, § 2380; 1892, § 883; 1906, § 960; Hemingway's 1917, § 669; 1930, § 676; 1942, § 1587.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1988–2020 · leading case: Mississippi State Bar Ass'n v. Moyo, 525 So. 2d 1289 (Miss. 1988).
Mississippi State Bar Ass'n v. Moyo, 525 So. 2d 1289 (Miss. 1988). “§ 93-13-211 states nothing about who should file a petition for settlement of a claim thereunder.”
M.M., through his next friend Erin Kirkland v. State of Alaska, Dep't of Admin., Off. of Pub. Advocacy, Leslie Ridle, in her Off. capacity as Comm'r of the Dep't of Admin., & Chad Holt, in his Off. capacity as Dir. of the Off. of Pub. Advocacy, 462 P.3d 539 (Alaska 2020). “”); Miss. Code Ann. § 11-53-45 (2019) (“If in any case the plaintiff or complainant be an infant suing by next friend, such next friend shall (continued.”
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