ORLANDO v. BOYD

No. 24370.

466 S.E.2d 353 (1996)

Ernestine ORLANDO and Louis M. Orlando, Appellants, v. Richard C. BOYD, M.D., Bruce W. White, Jr., M.D., Raymond L. Thomas, M.D., Florence Radiological Associates, P.A., and J. Stovall King, M.D., of whom Richard C. Boyd, M.D., Bruce W. White, Jr., M.D., Raymond L. Thomas, M.D., and Florence Radiological Associates, P.A. are Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided January 22, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. Fayrell Furr, Jr., of Furr & Henshaw, Myrtle Beach, for appellants.

Donald V. Richardson, III, Charles E. Carpenter, Jr., and Deborah Harrison Sheffield, Richardson, and Plowden, Grier & Howser, Columbia, for respondents.


MOORE, Justice:

Appellants appeal the trial judge's order excluding an expert witness from testifying. We reverse.

FACTS

In 1988, appellant Ernestine Orlando was diagnosed with a brain tumor. During surgery it was discovered she did not have a tumor. Appellants Ernestine and Louis Orlando filed this medical malpractice claim against respondents on October 2, 1991. Dr. Robert Peyster was named as an expert for the Orlandos on December 3, 1991...

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