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JACOBY v. STATE

No. 82 CA 0814.

434 So.2d 570 (1983)

Meriam JACOBY v. STATE of Louisiana, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 23, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard S. Smith, Covington, for plaintiff, appellee.

William E. Decker, Mandeville, for intervenors Elma Y. Reppond, Dorothy Frosch Wren Byrd, Eva M. Frosch and Michael Frosch.

Thomas H. Matuschka, Baton Rouge, for defendant, appellant, State of La.

Before COVINGTON, LANIER and ALFORD, JJ.

LANIER, Judge.

This is a suit for damages in tort by Meriam Frosch Jacoby against David H. Nealy and the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Health and Human Resources (State), alleging that the State was at fault by allowing Nealy to escape from the Southeast Louisiana Hospital (SELH) and by failing to recapture him and that Nealy subsequently attacked Jacoby at her mobile home with a knife and inflicted serious wounds. Jacoby died while this suit was pending...

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