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NEED v. STATE EX REL. DEPARTMENT OF INSTITUTIONS

No. 8575.

255 So.2d 492 (1971)

Jerry Lee NEDD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF INSTITUTIONS, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 20, 1971.

Writ Granted February 11, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Owen Bradley and Steven R. Plotkin of Plotkin, Sapir, Bradley and Tanet, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Stanford O. Bardwell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee.

Before LOTTINGER, SARTAIN and ELLIS, JJ.

SARTAIN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Jerry Lee Nedd, an inmate at the state penitentiary at Angola, brought this action for serious personal injuries sustained as a result of an attack with a cane knife by a fellow inmate, McKinley Peterson, on January 27, 1968. Several of Nedd's fingers were cut off. He alleged negligence on the part of the penitentiary officials or employees for failing to keep Nedd and Peterson in separate areas of Angola because of a prior serious incident...

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