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LEONHARD v. NEW ORLEANS EAST ORTHO. CLINIC

No. CA-4004.

485 So.2d 1008 (1986)

Joseph LEONHARD, et al. v. NEW ORLEANS EAST ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 16, 1986.

Writ Denied June 13, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Boggs, Chester A. Fleming, III, Boggs, Loehn & Rodrigue, and Winifred M. Delery, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees New Orleans East Orthopedic Clinic, Kenneth L. Veca, M.D., St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. and La. Patients' Compensation Fund.

Bernard E. Burk, and Jacob Taranto, III, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants, Joseph Leonhard and Rose Leonhard.

Before BARRY, WARD and ARMSTRONG, JJ.

WARD, Judge.

Rose Leonhard and her husband Joseph Leonhard sued Mrs. Leonhard's doctor, Kenneth L. Veca, and others for damages resulting from nerve root injury which developed after Dr. Veca performed a vertebral needle biopsy on Mrs. Leonhard. The basis of the Leonhards' claim was that the written consent signed by Mrs. Leonhard was not valid.1 The Trial Judge dismissed the Leonhards' suit...

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