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LeBOUEF v. GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO.

No. 78-2553.

623 F.2d 985 (1980)

Lillie Mae LeBOUEF et al., Plaintiffs, v. The GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY et al., Defendants. TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Diaz, Lafayette, La., for defendant-appellant.

L. H. Olivier, Nicholls Pugh, Jr., Lafayette, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before JONES, GEE and REAVLEY, Circuit Judges.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1976, Shelby Leleux was killed and his passenger, Floyd Dugas, was seriously injured when the Mercury Cougar driven by Leleux veered off the Louisiana back road on which it had been travelling at over 100 miles per hour and crashed into a cement culvert. The accident occurred when the tread separated from the body of the Cougar's left rear tire. Dugas and Leleux's mother, Lillie Mae Duhon, brought this...

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