Theodore v. Ellis
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; William Campbell, Judge. Action by Anastople D-. Theodore against Dr. E. W. Ellis. From the judgment, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Two surgical operations were performed on plaintiff by defendant at the latter’s sanitarium at Crowley, La. The plaintiff contends that these operations were unnecessary, and were resorted to by defendant through ignorance, or else want of due care, or, worse still, through the mere lust of operating; and that the first of them, through incompetency or want of due care on the part of defendant, or on the part of the attendants of the sanitarium for whom defendant is responsible, caused unnecessary suffering; that as a result of these operations he has lost forever his manhood powers, and is…
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