Piedmont Pharmacy, Inc. v. Patmore

Shulman, Judge.

This case is before us to review an order by the trial court allowing the addition of appellant as a party defendant. Appellee brought suit in 1974, some six months after an eye ailment was diagnosed as steroid induced glaucoma. Believing the disease to have been caused by a prescription drug she had used for three years, appellee brought the suit against two doctors, a pharmacy and a pharmacist. After conducting discovery, the latter two defendants impleaded appellant and another pharmacy as third-party defendants. Prior to the dismissal of appellee’s complaint against the…