BAKER v. ZIRKLE

Record No. 820976.

307 S.E.2d 234 (1983)

Donna Cooley BAKER v. Walter M. ZIRKLE, Jr., M.D., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 9, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Mitchell, Jr., Winchester (Albert T. Mitchell, Hall, Monahan, Engle, Mahan & Mitchell, Winchester, on briefs), for appellant.

Phillip C. Stone, Harrisonburg (Ronald D. Hodges, Douglas L. Guynn, Wharton, Aldhizer & Weaver, Harrisonburg, on brief), for appellees.

Before CARRICO, C.J., COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, STEPHENSON and THOMAS, JJ., and HARRISON, Retired Justice.


CARRICO, Chief Justice.

In this medical malpractice case, the trial court sustained a plea of the statute of limitations and dismissed a motion for judgment filed by the plaintiff, Donna Cooley Baker, against the defendants, Walter M. Zirkle, Jr., M.D., Michael J. Reilly, M.D., Daniel G. Witmer, M.D., and Richard Bump, M.D. Whether the plea was properly sustained requires an analysis of the interaction between the applicable statute of limitations and certain statutory...

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