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MOTTESHEARD v. CASTERN

Record No. 971373.

500 S.E.2d 512 (1998)

Charles Burkett MOTTESHEARD v. Louis Joseph CASTERN, M.D., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 5, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Mann, Martinsville (Richard L. McGarry, Roanoke; Young, Haskins, Mann, Gregory & Smith, Martinsville, on briefs), for appellant.

Walter H. Peake, III (John C. Johnson; Frith, Anderson & Peake, on brief), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.

COMPTON, Justice.

In this action alleging physician negligence, the sole question is whether the trial court erred in refusing to permit a party to offer evidence of his general reputation for truth and veracity.

In July 1995, appellant Charles Burkett Mottesheard filed this action for damages against appellees Louis Joseph Castern, M.D., Robert O. McGuffin, M.D., and Sears Curtiss Mull, M.D. In a November 1996 amended motion for judgment, plaintiff alleged...

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