Hicks v. Mauldin

Benham, Judge.

Appellant, acting as an individual and in her capacity as administratrix of the estates of her deceased husband and of her deceased infant daughter, filed a medical malpractice action against appellee Mauldin, a physician who treated appellant’s daughter the day the child died. A jury rendered a verdict in favor of appellee, and appellant brings this appeal from the judgment entered thereon.

1. Appellant first enumerates as error the trial court’s admission of testimony concerning the propensity of the late Mr. Hicks to con sume alcohol.

Appellant alleged that appellee’s…