FOX v. ARGONAUT SOUTHWEST INSURANCE CO.

No. 4043.

230 So.2d 400 (1970)

Charles William FOX, III v. ARGONAUT SOUTHWEST INSURANCE COMPANY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

January 12, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kierr & Gainsburgh, Jesse R. Adams, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-relator.

Adams & Reese, Henry B. Alsobrook, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant-respondent.

Before REGAN, REDMANN, and CHASEZ, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

In this suit against the insurer of a hospital and the doctors there practicing, an element of plaintiff's negligence complaint is that an electrocardiogram was not properly interpreted by an intern in the hospital emergency room. Plaintiff complains that the doctor was negligent, and the hospital was negligent in having in its emergency room a doctor who was not competent to read EKGs.

During pre-trial discovery depositions, the doctor declined...

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