JOHNSON v. STATE, DEPT. OF HEALTH & HUMAN RESOURCES

No. CA 2140.

470 So.2d 901 (1985)

Lionel JOHNSON, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of His Minor Child, Queen Johnson v. STATE of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES, State of Louisiana and Charity Hospital.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

May 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Manard, III, Manard, Schoenberger & Ryan, New Orleans, for plaintiff.

Ivor A. Trapolin, L. Kevin Coleman, New Orleans, for defendant.

Before REDMANN, C.J., and GULOTTA and WILLIAMS, JJ.


REDMANN, Chief Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment against it for $4,000 general and $1,000 special damages for greenstick or torus fractures of a three-month-old child's leg. Plaintiff answers, seeking an increase. We affirm.

Defendant's expert expressed the opinion that the fractures could have occurred before the child was admitted to the hospital (based on his view that the x-rays on admission showed "something," though not clear fractures as shown...

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