7-5-41 - To receive certified copies of pleadings. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 7-5-41. To receive certified copies of pleadings.
 

In all suits against the state of Mississippi, any board, bureau, commission, or department thereof required to be defended by the attorney general, a completed copy of the bill of complaint, declaration, or other original pleading shall be mailed by the plaintiff or complainant to the attorney general, postage prepaid, properly addressed to him; and such original pleading shall bear a proper certificate to such effect when it is filed. No decree pro-confesso or default judgment shall be taken against such defendant. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 3841.5; Laws,  1950, ch. 313.