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RIDGE v. ESPINOZA

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160 Ga. App. 678 (1981)

288 S.E.2d 56

RIDGE et al. v. ESPINOZA et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied December 8, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Fredericks, J. Lee Rose, for appellants.

Michael G. Frick, Robert H. Cleveland, Rush S. Smith, Jr., George W. Hart, for appellees.

SHULMAN, Presiding Judge.

Appellants, husband and wife, brought a medical malpractice action against appellees, alleging that Dr. Espinoza negligently left a surgical sponge in Mrs. Ridge's abdomen when he performed surgery on her in 1973. Appellees answered the complaint and filed motions for summary judgment. The motions were based in part on Dr. Espinoza's affidavit in which he denied leaving a sponge in Mrs. Ridge, swore that the surgery he had performed was in...

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