Legal Opinion
Pope v. Goodgame
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided November 25, 1996No. A96A0885PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Andrews, Judge.
Shirley Pope and James Gillis, children of Nancy Gillis and administrators of her estate, appeal from the judgment entered on the jury’s verdict in favor of defendant James Goodgame, a radiation physicist. We affirm.
1. Construing the evidence so as to support the jury verdict, Mattox v. MARTA, 200 Ga. App. 697 (1) (409 SE2d 267) (1991), it was that Nancy Gillis suffered from breast cancer for which she underwent a mastectomy by Dr. Morgan in March 1987. Dr. Morgan then referred her to Dr. Smith, a radiologist, who advised her to undergo radiation therapy of the chest wall. She…
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