RICE v. TANNER

No. 05-74.

210 S.W.3d 860 (2005)

Dorothy Jean RICE, Winston Lee Rice, Jr., Gay Roberts, Diane Anderson for themselves and as next kin to Winston Lee Rice, Sr., Deceased, Appellants, v. Paul TANNER, Cross Ridge Community Hospital, J. Trent Beaton, Vernon I. Smith, Angela McGee, Jennifer Eason, Sudesh Banaji, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Forrest City, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

June 23, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duncan E. Ragsdale, Memphis, TN, and Gerald A. Coleman, West Memphis, for appellants.

Womack, Landis, Phelps, McNeill & McDaniel, by: Paul McNeill, Jonesboro, for appellee J. Trent Beaton.

Mitchell, Blackstock, Barnes, Wagoner & Ivers., by: Michael W. Mitchell, Little Rock, for appellee Sudesh Banaji.

Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins, L.L.P., by: Miriam T. Hopkins and Brett D. Watson, Little Rock, for appellee Estate of Vernon I. Smith.

Butler, Hickey, Long & Harris, by: Phil Hicky and Andrea W. Brock, Forrest City, for appellees Baptist Memorial Hospital, Forrest City, Angela McGee, and Terrilyn Eason.


ROBERT L. BROWN, Justice.

The appellants in this case are Dorothy Jean Rice, Winston Lee Rice, Jr., Gay Roberts, and Diane Anderson for themselves and as next of kin of Winston Lee Rice, Sr., who is deceased. They appeal the summary judgment of the circuit court which found that their complaint was a nullity due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The court, accordingly, dismissed their action. Their primary point on appeal is that siblings of the decedent...

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