Legal Opinion
Dobbs v. Providence Hospital
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 19, 1999No. 98-CV-310PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge.
Came B. Dobbs, survivor and next of kin of J.B. Dobbs, deceased, appeals the trial court’s dismissal of her medical malpractice case during the course of trial for want of prosecution. The trial court dismissed her case on the second day of trial when Dobbs’s remaining witnesses, particularly her expert, were not available to testify. Dobbs’s case had been dismissed once already pre-trial for failure to prosecute, although the case was subsequently reinstated and Dobbs ordered to pay fines. Aso, the trial court had been clear in its pretrial order that once the tidal…
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