Opinion

Grant v. Touro Infirmary

  • 254 La. 204
  • 223 So. 2d 148
  • 1969 La. LEXIS 2950
Court
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Filed
May 5, 1969
Status
Published
Author
Summers
On the bench
McCaleb, Barham, Hamiter, Appeal, Sanders, Summers, Bar-Ham
Cited by
52 cases

Overruled on other grounds by Garlington v. Kingsley, 289 So. 2d 88 (1974)

miscounting sponges after a surgery not a professional service

How later courts described this case

  • miscounting sponges after a surgery not a professional service
  • miscounting sponges after surgery

Written by the judges who cited it.

Later courts went against this

  • Overruled on other grounds by Garlington v. Kingsley, 289 So. 2d 88 (1974)

    Examples include: a governing board’s duty to select its employees with reasonable care, Grant v. Touro Infirmary, 254 La. 204, 223 So.2d 148 (1969), overruled on other grounds by Garlington v. Kingsley, 289 So.2d 88 (La.1974); the board’s duty to furnish the hospital with reasonably adequate supplies, equipment and facilities for use in treatment and diagnosis of patients, Snipes v. Southern Baptist Hospital, 243 So…
    Supreme Court of LouisianaJan 14, 19746 citing opinionsother groundsRead it

The opinion

*237 SUMMERS, Justice

(dissenting in part .and concurring in part).

I join in the reasons assigned by Mr. Justice Barham.

SANDERS, SUMMERS and BAR-HAM, JJ., dissent from the refusal of a rehearing.

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