Bass v. Barksdale

OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

This is an appeal by defendants Esther Barksdale, Abram C. Shmerling, and Robert W. Quinn from a $300,000 jury verdict in favor of plaintiff Ima C. Bass.

We adopt in part the statement of the case set out in defendant Quinn’s brief:

This medical malpractice action was commenced by Ima C. Bass in the Circuit Court for Davidson County, Tennessee, on June 23, 1980, against the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee (“Metropolitan Government”), a governmental entity operating a public health department, and Esther Barksdale, a nurse employed by that…