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· 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

How courts have described this case

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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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