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JUDICIAL COMMITMENT OF FBSR

No. 97-1327.

715 So.2d 675 (1998)

JUDICIAL COMMITMENT OF FBSR. FBSR, Mover-Appellant, Matthews Memorial Nursing Home, Respondent-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 24, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DeWitt T. Methvin, Jr., Alexandria, for FBSR.

Wilbert Joseph Saucier, Jr., Pineville, for Matthews Memorial Nursing Home.

Before DOUCET, C.J., and COOKS, SAUNDERS, WOODARD and DECUIR, JJ.

WOODARD, Judge.

The mover, FBSR, appeals the trial court's continuation of his judicial commitment and denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking to be released from nursing home confinement which was based on mental illness. For the reasons below, we reverse.

FACTS

Pursuant to a physician's emergency certificate on January 1, 1997, FBSR a seventy-six-year-old retired physician, was admitted to the Rapides General Hospital Geriatric...

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