Legal Opinion

Faucheaux v. Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation Hospital and Clinic

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided June 17, 1985No. 85-C-0968PublishedCited by 40 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

470 So.2d 878 (1985)

Wilbert P. FAUCHEAUX

v.

ALTON OCHSNER MEDICAL FOUNDATION HOSPITAL AND CLINIC, et al.

No. 85-C-0968.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 17, 1985.

2Per curiam

Writ granted. The judgments of the court of appeal, 468 So.2d 720 (La.App. 1985), and the trial court are reversed and the case is remanded for trial.

The lower court rulings purporting to interpret the effect of the decision by this court in DeBattista v. Argonaut-Southwest Ins. Co., 403 So.2d 26 (La.1981), are conspicuously erroneous. This court held in DeBattista that under Civil Code article 2315 a distributor of blood is strictly…

3Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Lott v. HaleySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1979
  2. Burmaster v. Gravity Drainage Dist. No. 2Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1978
  3. DeBattista v. Argonaut-Southwest Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1981
  4. Terrebonne v. South Lafourche Tidal ControlSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1984
  5. Faucheaux v. ALTON OCHSNER MEDICAL FOUNDATION HOSP. & CLINICLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1985

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