Legal Opinion
Mary Sheets v. Richard G. Burman
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 5, 1963No. 19922PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
The question for decision is whether the district court properly dismissed the plaintiff’s malpractice action on the defendant’s motion for a summary judgment based on the Mississippi Statute of Limitations.
On November 12, 1959, the plaintiff, Mrs. Mary Sheets, brought an action for malpractice and negligence against her former doctor, Richard Burman. She alleged that he left a curvilinear surgical needle in her abdomen in February, 1947 while performing a Caesarian section operation, and that she did not discover that this was the cause of her continuing pains until…
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