KING v. MURPHY

No. 53429.

424 So.2d 547 (1982)

Bobby F. KING, M.D. v. Jack C. MURPHY.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Price, Krohn & McLemore, Robert G. Krohn, Corinth, for appellant.

William S. Lawson, Tupelo, for appellee.

En Banc.


ROY NOBLE LEE, Justice, for the Court:

Jack Murphy filed a malpractice suit against Bobby F. King, M.D., in the Circuit Court of Tishomingo County, Honorable Fred Wicker, presiding. The jury returned a verdict in the sum of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) damages for loss of Murphy's left leg, judgment was entered in that amount, and Dr. King has appealed here.

THE HISTORY

Murphy, age sixty-one (61) years, has been a logger most of his life...

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