DAVIS v. PURYEAR

No. 95-CA-1637.

673 So.2d 1298 (1996)

Robert W. DAVIS, Jr., et al v. David PURYEAR, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

May 1, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence D. Wiedemann and Karl Wiedemann, New Orleans, for plaintiffs.

Gregory C. Weiss and Kathryn M. Caraway, Weiss & Eason, L.L.P., New Orleans, for defendants.

Before ARMSTRONG, WALTZER and LANDRIEU, JJ.


ARMSTRONG, Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendants, several State of Louisiana mental health institutions and several of their physician employees, from a judgment for the plaintiffs in this wrongful death case. The trial court found the defendants liable because a psychotic patient, committed to a state mental institution, escaped and, perhaps made violent by medications imprudently prescribed for and supplied to him by State mental health physicians, committed...

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