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FORAKER v. BOARD OF SUP'RS OF STATE UNIV.

No. 31,740-CA.

734 So.2d 63 (1999)

Nelda Branch FORAKER, et vir., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Writ Denied June 18, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelson, Hammons & Self by John L. Hammons, Shreveport, Counsel for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

The Townsley Law Firm by Todd Townsley, Lake Charles, Weems, Schimpf, Hayter, Gilsoul & Carmouche by John O. Hayter, III, Shreveport, Jerald L. Perlman, Shreveport, Counsel for Defendant-Appellee.

Before BROWN, STEWART and DREW, JJ.

DREW, J.

Nelda Foraker ("Nelda") suffered severe burns as a child in 1959 and was hospitalized at Confederate Memorial Hospital (now known as the LSU Medical Center) in Shreveport. Nelda alleges that she received a blood transfusion while at Confederate Memorial. Nelda and her husband, Tommy Foraker, filed suit in September 1994 alleging that Nelda contracted Hepatitis C from a 1959 blood transfusion during her stay at Confederate Memorial. Following a three-day trial...

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