Stanley v. Schumpert
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge. Action by Mack J. Stanley against T. E. Schumpert and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
The action is one sounding in damages, which plaintiff in his petition fixes at $5,000.
In May, 1904, plaintiff called on Dr. Dowling, an oculist in the city of Shreveport, to have his eyes treated. The physician suggested that during the treatment he should stay at the Shreveport Sanitarium. His physician prescribed a mild solution to be applied under the direction of a trained nurse. On one of the early days in June of that year one of the nurses of the institution, owing to her carelessness, applied alcohol instead of the mild solution prescribed by the physician.
Plaintiffs avers that he…
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