O'Rourke v. O'Rourke

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Miss Anna L. O’Rourke having secured a joint and solidary judgment in the district court against her brother Edward J. O’Rourke and Dr. C. Grenes Cole in the sum of $7,500 1 as damages for her wrongful seizure and commitment to the City Hospital for Mental Diseases in New Orleans, Louisiana, which judgment was reversed by the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans as to Dr. Cole and reduced to $1,000 as to O'Rourke, applied for and was granted certiorari to the end that we might review that judgment in so far as it related to the liability of Dr. Cole. 69 So.2d 567.

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