DOUGET v. TOURO INFIRMARY

No. 88-CA-0425.

537 So.2d 251 (1988)

Joseph L. DOUGET, et al. v. TOURO INFIRMARY, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Terrance Hoychick, Young, Hoychick & Aguillard, Eunice, for plaintiffs and appellants.

Dominic J. Gianna, Middleberg, Riddle and Gianna, Metairie, for defendant and appellee.

Before BYRNES, WILLIAMS and PLOTKIN, JJ.


WILLIAMS, Judge.

In this medical malpractice and battery action, plaintiffs, the widower and children of the deceased patient, Verdie L. Douget, appeal from a trial court judgment in favor of the defendant physician, Dr. William Ogden, II. Plaintiffs seek to pierce the statutorily presumed valid surgical consent form and to overturn the jury's findings that the defendant physician was not negligent in his care of decedent and had not committed battery when he removed...

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