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SHARP v. RICHARDSON

937 S.W.2d 846 (1996)

Ray F. SHARP, Jr. and Nell Sharp, Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. Greer E. RICHARDSON, M.D., Campbell Clinic, Inc., and Pfizer Hospital Products Group, Inc., Defendants/Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

September 16, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Everett B. Gibson, Everett B. Gibson Law Firm, Memphis, for appellants.

Buckner Wellford, Thomason, Hendrix, Harvey, Johnson & Mitchell, Memphis, for appellees, Greer E. Richardson, M.D. and Campbell Clinic, Inc.

Philip E. Mischke, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Memphis, for appellee, Pfizer Hospital Products Group, Inc.

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the Tennessee savings statute1 applies to save an action which was initially filed within the one-year products liability statute of limitations and the products liability statute of repose2, but which was voluntarily dismissed and refiled beyond the six-year statute of repose. We hold that it does. The Court of Appeals' judgment...

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