Mayes v. Bryan

Opinion

ALDRICH, J.

INTRODUCTION

Tracy Mayes, wife and mother respectively of plaintiffs Cornell Sterling Mayes, Alan James Mayes, and Christopher Scott Mayes, died at Huntington Memorial Hospital where she had undergone surgery to staple her stomach. Plaintiffs brought this wrongful death action against several physicians and nurses and their institutions who had been involved in Mrs. Mayes’s treatment, including David C. Bryan, M.D., and Hill Medical Corporation. (Dr. Bryan and his corporation are hereinafter referred to as defendants.) Plaintiffs’ theory at trial was that Dr. Bryan’s…