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DAVIS BY DAVIS v. JELLICO COMMUNITY HOSP. INC.

No. 89-5718.

912 F.2d 129 (1990)

Jackie DAVIS, by Next Friend, Edward DAVIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JELLICO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC.; William Stafford, M.D., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 23, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fredrich H. Thomforde, Jr. (argued), McCampbell & Young, J.D. Lee, Knoxville, Tenn., for Jackie Davis, by next friend, Edward Davis.

Margaret G. Klein, James H. London, Hogin, London & Montgomery, Knoxville, Tenn., for Jellico Community Hosp., Inc.

James G. O'Kane, Jr. (argued), Poore, Cox, Baker, Ray & Byrne, Knoxville, for William Stafford, M.D.

Before MARTIN and BOGGS, Circuit Judges; and HACKETT, District Judge.

BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The defendants, Jellico Community Hospital and Dr. William Stafford, appeal a jury verdict of $2,500,000 for the plaintiff, Jackie Davis, in this Tennessee diversity action for medical malpractice. Specifically, the defendants contend that the district court incorrectly applied Rules 59 and 60 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by upholding the jury verdict in light of Davis's death...

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