JACOBS v. NEW ORLEANS PUB. SERV. INC.

No. 9446.

368 So.2d 1204 (1979)

Marlene JACOBS et al. v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Shields, New Orleans, for plaintiffs.

A. R. Christovich, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants.

Before REDMANN, GULOTTA and BEER, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

Defendants appeal from a $100,000 judgment for plaintiff mother's psychological disability, "what I consider a conversion reaction," the trial judge reasoned.

Plaintiffs did not plead that the accident caused the mother any psychological problems. They did plead that it caused traumatic neurosis to her 12-year daughter, whose psychiatrist diagnosed post-traumatic psychoneurosis with conversion symptoms. Quantum for the daughter is not at issue...

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