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BLOXOM: LIVE
The Texas Supreme Court today ruled that a two-year statute of limitations id not apply to a Fort Worth medical practice suit because it wasn't until afterwards that the woman plaintiff said she learned what the operation really had done to her. Geneva Nichols charged that Dr. Jack C. Smith allegedly cut a key nerve in a 1966 hernia operation which left her suffering from constant nausea. The woman asserted that Er. Smith concealed the reason for her illness and she didn't learn the real cause until 1969. Today's court ruling reversed lower court decisions in the case and it'll be re-tried --30--
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Statute of limitations],
script,
October 31, 1973, 6:00 p.m.;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1908194/m1/1/:
accessed August 15, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.