Baldridge v. Howard

GUILLOT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in a medical malpractice case. The trial court granted summary judgment on the ground that the cause of action was barred by the statute of limitations. For the reasons below, we reverse and remand for trial.

Appellant, Linda Kay Baldridge, underwent a thyroidectomy on September 30, 1973. In a suit filed November 23, 1983, she alleged that appellee, Charles H. Howard, M.D., was negligent in “failing to avoid cutting, severing, tearing, or otherwise damaging her laryngeal nerves” during the thyroidectomy. She further alleged that the…