Minnie E. Pittman v. James O. Gilmore, M.D.

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

In this Mississippi diversity suit involving allegations of medical malpractice, a judgment for $75,000 was obtained by plaintiff, Mrs. Minnie Pittman, against defendant, Dr. James O. Gilmore, a general practitioner in Oxford, Mississippi.

Mrs. Pittman filed her complaint under the Mississippi Wrongful Death Statute, Section 11-7-13, Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated, alleging that her late husband, Carl Pittman, a patient of the defendant physician, died as a result of failure of defendant to exercise the standard of care ordinarily exercised by general practitioners…