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WATERS v. SMITH

[No. 105, September Term, 1975.]

277 Md. 189 (1976)

352 A.2d 793

WATERS ET UX., ETC. v. SMITH ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 3, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton J. Owrutsky and Walter P. Drake, with whom were Perdue, Owrutsky & Whitehead, P.A. on the brief, for appellants.

John W.T. Webb, with whom were W. Newton Jackson, 3d and Webb, Burnett & Simpson on the brief, for Smith and Womack, part of appellees. John F. King, with whom were Anderson, Coe & King on the brief, for Rimer and Johnson, other appellees.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ.

SINGLEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This medical malpractice action on behalf of an incompetent was instituted on 24 February 1970 by Oscar and Edith Waters, the parents of Marion Bertha Long, the incompetent, who had qualified as her committee in January, 1969. Named as defendants were Stedman W. Smith, M.D., William S. Womack, M.D., B.A. Rimer, M.D., and Robert H. Johnson, Jr., M.D., who were associated with Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury in...

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