Williams v. Terry

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Lurner O. Williams brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Daniel B. Terry, Jr., and the Hospital Authority of Ware County, d/b/a Memorial Hospital of Waycross, alleging that the defendants negligently left a surgical sponge in his abdomen during a 1979 operation. The jury verdict was in favor of the defendants, and Williams appeals.

1. Williams contends that the trial court erroneously excluded the deposition testimony of his expert witness as to the lack of necessity for the surgery, and his opinion as to the improper operative procedure taken by the…