Osborne v. Frazor

This is an appeal by the defendant, J. W. Osborne, M. D., from a jury verdict and judgment for plaintiffs in a malpractice case.

The original plaintiff was Mrs. Effie Frazier (Frazor), but she died shortly after suit was filed, and her cMldren, Norman Frazor and others, were duly substituted as plaintiffs.

The case has been tried three times. During the first trial a verdict was directed in favor of the defendant, Osborne, and another defendant, a hospital, on grounds of the running of the statute of limitations. In the published opinion of Frazor v. Osborne, 57 Tenn.App. 10, 414 S.W.2d 118…