MATTER OF COMMITMENT OF ASKEW

No. 9357.

359 So.2d 227 (1978)

In the Matter of the COMMITMENT OF Michael Christopher ASKEW.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 13, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Loyola Law School Clinic, Philip A. Costa, Student Practitioner, William J. O'Hara, III, Supervising Atty., New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Kronlage, Dittmann & Caswell, Joseph Maselli, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LEMMON, GULOTTA and BEER, JJ.


BEER, Judge.

On July 8, 1977, appellant, Michael Askew, a Florida resident, traveled to Louisiana with his father (appellee) in order to be admitted as an in-patient at River Oaks Hospital in Jefferson Parish. He was 17 years of age at the time of his uncontested admission to River Oaks but would reach the age of majority on July 26, 1977. Though willing to voluntarily enter the hospital on July 8th, he expressed his intention to exercise his majority rights and take...

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