Legal Opinion
Benoit v. Speight
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided May 25, 1983No. 82-826PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
STOKER, Judge.
Plaintiff Irene Benoit appeals from a judgment in favor of the defendant, George W. Speight, coroner for Jefferson Davis Parish. Plaintiff seeks reversal of the trial court’s ruling which failed to order defendant to alter a death certificate so as to change the official designation of cause of death of plaintiff’s 19-year-old daughter, Rosea Marie Bott, from suicide to some other cause. We affirm.
In the early morning of October 7, 1981, Miss Bott was found dead by her roommate, Diane Scoper. After investigation by the defendant and deputies of Jefferson Davis Parish, defendant…
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