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Title: Phillips family sues, saying hospital 'imprisoned' baby
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Brich, George
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph article dated March 29, 1961 partially reads, "After a delay of three years, a North Hollwood [sic] couple is suing a North Hollywood hospital for $30,000 damages, claiming the medical center 'falsely imprisoned' their newborn baby because they couldn't pay the bill...Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Phillips, 5653 Bakman Ave., brought the action in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday on behalf of Jane Ann, now 3, born March 9, 1958, at Victory Hospital...The suit asserts that nurses, agents and servants of the hospital wrongfully restrained and imprisoned the child for two days and two nights before Phillips took the baby home on March 17 after he had arranged to pay the bill." Pictured with Mr. and Mrs. Phillips are Jane, 3; Craig, 8; Stephen, 7; and Frankie, 5.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00127817
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d033_f21_i26
CARL0005448311
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/59319
Subject: Actions and defenses--California--San Fernando Valley
Families--California--San Fernando Valley
Couples--California--San Fernando Valley
Brothers and sisters--California--San Fernando Valley
Men--California--San Fernando Valley
Women--California--San Fernando Valley
Children--California--San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1961
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