Opinion ID: 1607598
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: whether the trial court erred in allowing price to file a third amended complaint.

Text: ś 54. Drs. Austin, Wright, and Sullivan, and Cleveland Medical Clinic, Ltd., and Cleveland Clinic, P.A., cross-appeal the trial court's July 24, 2006, order granting Price leave to file her third amended complaint on the basis that it was improvidently granted. The trial court's July 24, 2006, order cites Rule 15(a) of the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure, which states, in pertinent part, leave shall be freely given when justice so requires. Thus, leave to amend was properly granted, given that to deny it would deny a plaintiff recourse where an argument could be made that the substituted parties in the amended complaint related back to the fictional parties in the original complaint. Accordingly, this issue is without merit.