Parker v. Jones County Community Hosp.

549 So.2d 443 (1989)

Flora PARKER

v.

JONES COUNTY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL and William Burke, M.D.

No. 07-58555.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 13, 1989.

Wynn E. Clark and Joe Sam Owen, Owen Galloway & Clark, Gulfport, for appellant.

Brooke Ferris, III, Gibbes Graves Mullins Firm, Laurel, for appellees.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and ROBERTSON and PITTMAN, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

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