Legal Opinion
Karr v. Noel
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided May 7, 1991No. 5-89-0025PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE RARICK
delivered the opinion of the court:
Plaintiff, Carrie Karr, brought this action in the circuit court of St. Clair County to recover damages for alleged negligent treatment of a spider bite. Following trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants, Bjong-Suhn Tschoe, M.D., and Stanton Schiller, M.D., and Karr appeals.
At trial, Karr testified that around 7 p.m. on July 26, 1982, she was bitten on the upper right thigh by what she believed to be a brown recluse spider. She went to the emergency room at Belleville Memorial Hospital and took the spider with…
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