GUNTER v. STATE

No. 5156.

127 So.2d 31 (1961)

Shelton E. GUNTER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 6, 1961.

Certiorari Denied April 24, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor, Porter, Brooks, Fuller & Phillips, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Weber & Weber, Clark W. Taylor, Baton Rouge, for appellee.

Before ELLIS, LOTTINGER, HERGET, JONES and LANDRY, JJ.


ELLIS, Judge.

This suit arose out of an accident which occurred on the afternoon of May 15, 1957 whereby Mrs. Marguerite Brown Gunter, wife of plaintiff, when driving an automobile on the free ferry owned and operated by the Department of Highways, State of Louisiana, somehow ran into the chain barrier which gave way and her car continued the length of the disembarking ramp and thence into the river and she and her guest passenger were drowned.

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