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EVANS v. H.C. WATKINS MEMORIAL HOSP.

No. 85-4192. Summary Calendar.

778 F.2d 1021 (1985)

Gray EVANS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. H.C. WATKINS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC., and Violet Smith, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 22, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Peter K. Smith, Quitman, Miss., William S. Lawson, Tupelo, Miss., Thomas J. Lowe, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff-appellant.

Walter W. Eppes, Jr., Meridian, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, RANDALL and W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Evans appeals the denial of his motion for new trial from a judgment entered on a $20,000 jury verdict in a diversity case on grounds that the award is inadequate. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

I.

Mrs. Nettie D. Evans, an eighty-nine-year-old-woman, was a patient in Watkins Memorial Hospital in Quitman County, Mississippi, undergoing treatment for herpes zoster (shingles). On February 6, 1980, sometime...

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