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WALKER BY AND THROUGH WALKER v. SKIWSKI

No. 58131.

529 So.2d 184 (1988)

Herman J. WALKER, Jr., By and Through his Next Friend, Herman J. WALKER, and Herman J. Walker v. Jacob SKIWSKI.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 3, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Bambach, Columbus, for appellants.

Taylor B. Smith, Threadgill, Smith, Sanders & Jolly, Columbus, for appellee.

Before ROBERTSON, GRIFFIN and ZUCCARO, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This is a medical malpractice case. The trial court granted a physician's motion for summary judgment. The case turns on a combined interaction of our rules regarding a physician's duty of care and as well the procedural requisites for successful opposition to a motion for summary judgment. Because of the strength of the physician's showing coupled with the plaintiff patient's failure to support his opposition with a...

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