National Credit Associates, Inc. v. Tinker

MAUGHMER, Commissioner.

The decisive issue here is whether or not a patient’s suit for damages, alleging fraud in the prescription and application of professional treatment by her physician and commenced more than two years after the date of the last treatment, is barred under the Statute of Limitations requiring suits for malpractice to be brought within two years “ * * * from the date of the act of neglect complained of.”

The parties include the patient, Mrs. Marjorie B. Tinker, who is described in most of the pleadings as “Roberta Tinker”. However, she filed a motion asserting that her…