PENDARVIS v. PENNINGTON

86-332.

521 So.2d 969 (1988)

Ruth Marie PENDARVIS, as administratrix of the estate of Isaac F. Pendarvis, deceased v. Lloyd F. PENNINGTON, Jr.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 26, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel L. McCleave of Pennington, McCleave & Patterson, Mobile, for appellant.

W. Boyd Reeves and Edward A. Dean of Armbrecht, Jackson, DeMouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, for appellee.


ADAMS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment based on a directed verdict in a medical malpractice case.

The decedent checked into the Mobile Infirmary at 4:15 p.m., on July 5, 1981, for a voluntary heart catheterization, a diagnostic procedure to determine the extent of damage to the blood vessels of the heart resulting from a previous heart attack. The record reveals that the decedent was having chest pains when he checked into the hospital and that...

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