BRECHTEL v. LOPEZ

No. 351.

140 So.2d 189 (1962)

Weldon C. BRECHTEL v. Warren LOPEZ, Sr., and Home Indemnity Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 1962.

Certiorari Denied June 4, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert J. Garon & Milton E. Brener, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Bienvenu & Culver, P. A. Bienvenu and Sydney J. Parlongue, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Before McBRIDE, SAMUEL and HALL, JJ.


LUTHER E. HALL, Judge pro tem.

Weldon C. Brechtel, a New Orleans Police Officer, brought this suit for damages for personal injuries resulting from an accident wherein the police car in which he was riding crashed into a utility pole while he was giving chase to Warren Lopez, Jr., a sixteen year old boy who was unlawfully fleeing the police in his father's automobile for the purpose of avoiding apprehension. The suit was brought against Warren Lopez, Sr., the father...

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