· 7/30/2004
Edgar Foster, Individually and on Behalf of Wife, and Stanley Turner v. St. Joseph Hospital, Mahir R. Awdeh, M.D., Raj. C. Dave, M.D.
Citations
- 158 S.W.3d 418
- 2004 Tenn. App. LEXIS 491
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- involving the savings statute, holding that the first wrongful death lawsuit filed by an improper plaintiff was not a nullity, and that the proper party plaintiff could be substituted in the second lawsuit
- notice to defendant is the true test; it is not necessaiy that the two complaints be identical, only that the allegations arise out of the same transaction or occurrence
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Judges: Judge Holly M. Kirby
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