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HUMPHREYS v. McCOMISKEY

No. 1213.

159 So.2d 380 (1964)

Elsa Carazo HUMPHREYS v. Dr. Arthur J. McCOMISKEY et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

January 6, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger H. Fellom, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Walter M. Barnett, Moise W. Dennery, Morris Wright, Leonard B. Levy, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

Peter H. Beer, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

Before YARRUT, SAMUEL and TURNER, JJ.

TURNER, Judge.

The plaintiff in this case, Mrs. Elsa Carazo Humphreys, checked into the Touro Infirmary, a hospital operated in the City of New Orleans, for the purpose of having a tonsillectomy on November 9, 1960. She selected her personal physician, Dr. Arthur J. McComiskey, as her surgeon to perform said operation. She claimed that in the performance of the operation Dr. McComiskey negligently cut the top of her uvula off, which resulted in very serious permanent...

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