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MARTIN v. EAST JEFFERSON GENERAL HOSP.

No. 91-C-0393.

582 So.2d 1272 (1991)

Georgia Wells Martin, Wife of, and Roger MARTIN v. EAST JEFFERSON GENERAL HOSPITAL, Employees of East Jefferson General Hospital, Saeed Ahmed, M.D., and Jesse James Wells, Sr., and Other Joint Tortfeasors and Health Care Providers.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 21, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russ M. Herman, Mark B. Wolfe, John B. Loweb, Charles O. Taylor, Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotlar, New Orleans, for plaintiff-applicant.

Steven A. Adams, Carruth, Cooper and Adams, Baton Rouge, Edward Rice, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, for defendant-respondent.

CALOGERO, Chief Justice.

A writ was granted in this medical malpractice action to determine whether the court of appeal, which reversed the district court's judgment in favor of the plaintiff, afforded the proper deference to the district court's findings of fact.

This action arose out of the death of a twenty-one year old woman named Joyce1 Marie Wells. The immediate cause of her death was cardiac arrest due to myocarditis, an...

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