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• High court to hear tobacco suit appeal 

The state Supreme Court will hear arguments Nov. 19 in an appeal of a jury's rejection of a $102 million wrongful death suit filed against a tobacco company.

The lawsuit was filed by Kay Nunnally, whose husband, a longtime smoker, died of lung cancer. A DeSoto County jury ruled for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in July 2000.

Nunnally, of Southaven, had claimed 37-year-old Joseph Lee Nunnally developed cancer in 1987 after smoking cigarettes from the time he was a child. . .

A defense expert witness, George Seiden of Shreveport, La., a psychiatrist, had testified that his experience and review of Nunnally's medical records led him to believe that Nunnally knew the hazards of smoking and could have stopped smoking if he had felt motivated to do so.

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