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In Mississippi, you may file in small claims court, known as justice court, on your own for anything that is $3,500 or less. If you want to sue for more, you will have to file in a different court and may need the help of a lawyer. You may talk to the clerk of court for help in filing a lawsuit in small claims court.

If a defendant is not served within 90 days after the complaint is filed, and if the party required to serve the defendant cannot show good cause why service was not made within that period, the court?on its own with notice to that party or on a motion?must dismiss the action as to that defendant without prejudice.

The summons and a copy of the complaint must then be served on each defendant. This rule provides for personal service, residence service, first-class mail and acknowledgement service, certified mail service, and publication service.

A subpoena may be served by a sheriff, or by his deputy, or by any other person who is not a party and is not less than 18 years of age, and his return endorsed thereon shall be prima facie proof of service, or the person served may acknowledge service in writing on the subpoena.

When a foreign subpoena is issued, the clerk of the court in the county where the investigation is taking place must receive it. This state's court clerks are bound by the rules of their respective jurisdictions to issue a subpoena to the person named in a foreign subpoena and serve it on that person.

Id. Rule 81 requires use of a special summons which commands that the defendant appear and defend at a specific time and place set by order of the court and informs him or her that no answer is necessary.