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· 4/17/1894

O'Malley v. Jordan

Citations

  • 57 Mo. App. 616
  • 1894 Mo. App. LEXIS 245

How courts have described this case

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  • holding spoliation instruction was warranted in medical malpractice action where two pieces of evidence initially collected by hospital were missing
  • explaining that a plaintiff's requested jury charge on spoliation \allowed jurors to draw a negative inference\ if it found the defendant's explanation regarding missing records unsatisfactory reflected South Carolina law on adverse inferences
  • providing for an adverse inference jury charge when there has been spoliation of evidence

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Judges: Biggs, Bond, Rombauer, Views

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