Morton v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

This is an action for damages allegedly suffered from a drug sold by defendant, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation. Plaintiff is also suing defendant, William D. Crawley, M.D., for medical malpractice. Georgia law controls.

This case comes to the Court in the most difficult and tragic of circumstances. The presiding judge, Judge Frank W. Wilson of the Southern Division of this District, died suddenly after trial in the case commenced but before the jury was charged.

Plaintiff has moved this Court for an order directing the trial to proceed and for a judge…