Faris v. Doctors Hospital, Inc.

EUBANK, Judge.

This appeal involves the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur in a medical malpractice case brought by the appellant (plaintiff), Margaret Faris, against the appellees (defendants), Charles R. Nevins, M.D., John T. Peter Hayward-Butt, M.D., and Doctors Hospital. The trial court granted each defendant a separate summary judgment, from which the appellant appealed.

Appellant questions the correctness of granting each summary judgment, and contends, in essence, that where she relies on the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, in the pretrial stage of the proceedings, the…