ESTATE OF NORTHROP v. HUTTO

No. 2007-CT-00355-SCT.

9 So.3d 381 (2009)

The ESTATE OF Abner K. NORTHROP, Jr., Abner K. Northrop, III, Administrator v. Davis HUTTO, Stanley Turner, Memorial Hospital at Gulfport and Thomas Letard, M.D.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 21, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd J. Logan, Gulfport, attorney for appellant.

Patricia K. Simpson, Gulfport, Ross Douglas Vaughn, Fredrick B. Feeney, Margaret P. Mcarthur, attorneys for appellees.

EN BANC.


ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI.

RANDOLPH, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. This medical malpractice case is before this Court on writ of certiorari. A divided Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants. Northrop v. Hutto, ___ So.3d ___, 2008 Miss.App. LEXIS 352 (Miss. Ct.App. June 10, 2008). The issue before the Court is what testimony is required from a medical expert witness to establish a prima facie case sufficient...

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