COURTEAU v. DODD

No. 89-105.

773 S.W.2d 436 (1989)

299 Ark. 380

Dollie & Duane COURTEAU, Guardians of the Estate and Person of Timothy Courteau, Appellants, v. Doyne DODD, M.D. Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

July 3, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel A. Perroni, Stanley D. Rauls, Little Rock, for appellants.

Michael E. Hale, Little Rock, for appellee.


NEWBERN, Justice.

This is a medical malpractice case decided by summary judgment in favor of defendant, Doyne Dodd, M.D., the appellee. The action was brought by the appellants, Dollie and Duane Courteau, on behalf of their son and ward, Timothy Courteau. Timothy, at age twenty, suffered a broken neck in a diving accident. While he was a patient at North Little Rock Memorial Hospital, a breathing tube which had been placed through his nostril into his trachea became...

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