Waters v. Smith

Trial of this medical malpractice case before Judge John Grason Turnbull and a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County was aborted on the sixth day of trial. In this appeal we are concerned only with why and how the trial was terminated, and with subsequent proceedings in the case after 30 October 1973, the day the trial ended.

The plaintiffs below, appellants here, are the parents and Committee of the person and estate of Marion Bertha Long, an incompetent. The defendants below, appellees here, are four physicians who, in 1960, at the time of the alleged medical malpractice, were…