POWELL v. FIDELITY & CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK

No. 6602.

185 So.2d 324 (1966)

Ledell POWELL et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FIDELITY & CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK, the Baton Rouge General Hospital and Argonaut Insurance Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

April 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bobby L. Forrest, of Forrest & Kiefer, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Robert L. Kleinpeter, of Kantrow, Spaht & Kleinpeter, Baton Rouge, for appellee.

Before ELLIS, LOTTINGER, LANDRY, REID and BAILES, JJ.


ELLIS, Judge.

This malpractice suit was filed as a result of the death of Florida Powell, who will hereinafter be referred to as decedent, and the death of the unborn child of said decedent on September 17, 1963. It is not seriously disputed that the cause of decedent's death was pulmonary edema brought on as a result of a transfusion of 1000 cc. of whole blood. Decedent was in her thirty-fifth week of pregnancy at the time and the child was delivered by post-mortem...

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