Fines v. Kendrick

The sole issue for decision in this medical malpractice appeal is whether the trial court erred in sustaining defendants’ pleas of the statute of limitations.

This action was instituted on May 6,1976, for injuries allegedly received in March, 1971. In his motion for judgment Norton C. Fines (plaintiff or Fines), incompetent, who sued by and through Marjorie Ellen Fines, his next friend, alleged he was injured by the negligence of defendant, John F. Kendrick (Kendrick), a neurosurgeon, and Richmond Memorial Hospital (the hospital), in the care and treatment he received while Kendrick’s patient…