HAYWARD v. ECHOLS

No. 22176.

362 F.2d 791 (1966)

Harold E. HAYWARD, Appellant, v. Dr. Dean H. ECHOLS et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 22, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Arnold Pyle, Robert H. Weaver, Jackson, Miss., David C. Treen, New Orleans, La., Beard, Blue, Schmitt & Green, New Orleans, La., Watkins, Pyle, Edwards & Ludlam, Jackson, Miss., of counsel, for appellant.

Richard C. Baldwin, Henry B. Alsobrook, Jr., Adams & Reese, W. Ford Reese, New Orleans, La., for appellees.

Before RIVES and GEWIN, Circuit Judges, and ALLGOOD, District Judge.


GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana dismissing appellant's case for failure to prove a cause of action sounding in tort. The controversy involves a diversity suit for damages filed by appellant against various doctors and a hospital for personal injuries sustained during the course of a brain operation.1 The case was tried by the court sitting...

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