BUTLER v. ALATUR


419 A.2d 938 (1980)

Curtis BUTLER and Linda R. Butler, his wife, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. Tengiz A. ALATUR, M. D. and Rockford Center, a division of Retirement Living, Inc., a corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided August 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alene S. Berkowitz, Wilmington (argued) of Knecht, Greenstein, Schagrin & Berkowitz, Wilmington and M. Mark Mendel (argued), Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Mary Pat Trostle, Wilmington (argued) of Biggs & Battaglia, Wilmington, for defendant-appellee Alatur.

Richard I. G. Jones, Wilmington (argued) and William Prickett of Prickett, Jones, Elliott & Kristol, Wilmington, for defendant-appellee Rockford Center.

Before McNEILLY, QUILLEN and HORSEY, JJ.


QUILLEN, Justice:

This is an appeal from a grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants. It involves Delaware's statute on expert medical witnesses. 18 Del.C. § 6854.1

The plaintiffs by affidavits tendered four experts: a practicing psychiatrist from Haddonfield, New Jersey who is the Chief of Psychiatry at the Garden State Community Hospital and Clinical Senior Instructor in Child Psychiatry at Hahnemann Medical...

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