Doxey v. Riverside Guest Care Center

520 So.2d 1118 (1987)

Lessie DOXEY, Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

RIVERSIDE GUEST CARE CENTER, Defendant-Appellant.

No. 86-1175.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 9, 1987.

Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway, Benjamin C. King, Jr., Shreveport, for defendant-appellant.

Gahagan & Gahagan, Marvin F. Gahagan, Natchitoches, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before DOUCET and KING, JJ., and CULPEPPER[*], J. Pro Tem.

DOUCET, Judge.

Plaintiff, Lessie Doxey, while a resident at Riverside Guest Care Center, became acutely ill on December 25, 1983. The cause of plaintiff's illness was an ileus and a urinary tract…