Donavant v. Hudspeth

347 S.E.2d 797 (1986)

Lewis W. DONAVANT

v.

Allen S. HUDSPETH, M.D.

No. 429PA85.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 29, 1986.

Young, Haskins, Mann, Gregory & Young by Robert W. Mann, Martinsville, Va., and Cofer & Mitchell, P.A. by Eddie C. Mitchell, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff-appellee.

Petree, Stockton, Robinson, Vaughn, Glaze & Maready by J. Robert Elster, Michael L. Robinson and J. Stephen Shi, Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellant.

BILLINGS, Justice.

In March of 1979, the plaintiff, then age 43, consulted Dr. Joseph Gaddy, a cardiologist in Winston-Salem, because of chest pain (angina). Dr.…