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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Mississippi / Joined 1948 / Served to 1961

Lee Davis Hall

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Lee Davis Hall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1963
Tenure: 1948–1961 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Mississippi College
University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Hall authored 399 published opinions for the court (1949–1961), plus 22 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: City of Meridian v. Davidson (51 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 292 of these were attributed to Hall by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1951	City of Meridian v. Davidson· Dissent†	53 So. 2d 48	51
1953	Tombigbee Electric Power Ass'n v. Gandy	62 So. 2d 567	48
1953	McCullen v. State Ex Rel. Alexander	63 So. 2d 856	44
1958	BALLARD, MAYOR, ETC. v. Smith· Dissent†	107 So. 2d 580	42
1956	Permenter v. Milner Chevrolet Co.	91 So. 2d 243	42
1952	American Creosote Works of La. v. Harp	60 So. 2d 514	41
1952	Sones v. Southern Lumber Co.	60 So. 2d 582	40
1958	Dame v. Estes	101 So. 2d 644	37
1949	Palmer v. Clarksdale Hospital	40 So. 2d 582	37
1955	Farmer v. State for Use of Russell	79 So. 2d 528	31
1954	Nichols v. Gaddis & McLaurin, Inc.· Dissent†	75 So. 2d 625	31
1954	Adams v. State	72 So. 2d 211	31
1949	Meridian City Lines v. Baker	39 So. 2d 541	31
1955	Laurel Daily Leader, Inc. v. James	80 So. 2d 770	30
1954	Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Millette	72 So. 2d 176	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 435 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Mississippi reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Lee Davis Hall on?: Lee Davis Hall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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13 years on the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).