Johnson v. University Medical Center in Lafayette

|/The plaintiff in this medical malpractice case, Lela Johnson, had previously sought and obtained a grant of an appeal of the trial court judgment dismissing her *727claim against the University Medical Center in Lafayette and the Medical Center of Louisiana in New Orleans. When she failed to timely pay the estimated costs of that appeal, the defendants filed a motion to dismiss her appeal as abandoned. The trial court granted that motion, and the matter now before us is the appeal of that judgment of dismissal of her appeal. For the following reasons, we reverse and reinstate Ms. Johnson’s…