Renfro v. Black

Plaintiffs-appellants’ first and third propositions of law are interrelated and will be considered together.

I

Plaintiffs argue that the trial court should have permitted the jury to consider the “timeliness” of a so-called “Dear Doctor” letter dated “November, 1983” that Smith Laboratories sent to Dr. Dwight, and that the trial court should have instructed the jury *29as plaintiffs requested in proposed instruction No. Four.2

Dr. Dwight testified that he periodically received correspondence from Smith Laboratories regarding the drug Chymodiactin. Prior to injecting Yvonne Renfro with Chymodiactin,…