BENOIT v. SPEIGHT

No. 82-826.

432 So.2d 1114 (1983)

Irene BENOIT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. George SPEIGHT, Coroner, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

May 25, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller, Miller & Craton, Jack Derrick Miller, Crowley, for plaintiff-appellant.

W. Gregory Arnette, Jr., Jennings, for defendant-appellee.

Before GUIDRY, STOKER and LABORDE, JJ.


STOKER, Judge.

Plaintiff Irene Benoit appeals from a judgment in favor of the defendant, George W. Speight, coroner for Jefferson Davis Parish. Plaintiff seeks reversal of the trial court's ruling which failed to order defendant to alter a death certificate so as to change the official designation of cause of death of plaintiff's 19-year-old daughter, Rosea Marie Bott, from suicide to some other cause. We affirm.

In the early morning of October 7, 1981, Miss...

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