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LESTER v. ÆTNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY

No. 16154.

240 F.2d 676 (1957)

Harlan F. LESTER, Appellant, v. ÆTNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 1, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Comegys, Jr., Shreveport, La., for appellant.

Richard H. Switzer, Shreveport, La., Lunn, Irion, Switzer, Trichel & Johnson, Shreveport, La., of counsel, for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and HOLMES and BORAH, Circuit Judges.

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought against defendant-appellee as the insurer of Dr. Edith W. Rigsby, a physician specializing in the practice of psychiatry, the suit was for malpractice and for the damage alleged to have resulted therefrom.

After a lengthy trial at which many witnesses testified, the cause was submitted to a jury upon a full and comprehensive general charge to which plaintiff took only three exceptions.1

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