CAMPBELL v. MINCEY

No. WC 74-101-S.

413 F.Supp. 16 (1975)

Hattie Mae CAMPBELL et al., Plaintiffs, v. R. J. MINCEY, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Marshall County Hospital, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, W. D.

November 28, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Brothers, North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, Holly Springs, Miss., Lewis Myers, Jr., North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, Oxford, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Lowell Grisham, Richard Carlisle, Ethridge, Grisham & Carlisle, Oxford, Miss., L. G. Fant, Jr., Fant, Crutcher, Moore & Spencer, Holly Springs, Miss., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

ORMA R. SMITH, District Judge.

On the morning of March 21, 1974, Hattie Mae Campbell gave birth to her third child, a son whom she named Frederick, under circumstances which counsel for plaintiffs in this case maintains would "disgrace a nation of savages". Whatever the character of the facts surrounding Frederick Campbell's birth, they provide the basis of this litigation.

On August 19, 1974, Ms. Campbell and her son filed...

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