GRIGG v. LESTER

No. 8827SC1359.

401 S.E.2d 657 (1991)

Watha Painter GRIGG and Brent Lydell Grigg v. Robert LESTER, M.D., and Gaston Gynecology & Obstetrics, P.A., a North Carolina Professional Association.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 19, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelso & Ferguson by Lloyd T. Kelso, Gastonia, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman by Charles V. Tompkins, Jr., Charlotte, for defendants-appellees.


PHILLIPS, Judge.

The trial of this medical negligence action ended with the jury finding that the injury the femme plaintiff admittedly sustained while defendant obstetrician was undertaking to deliver her child by cesarean section was not caused by his negligence. That it was appropriate to deliver the child surgically, after several hours of unprogressive labor, is conceded—disputed is whether the nature of the injury and the circumstances surrounding it...

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