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ARDOIN v. CROWN ZELLERBACH CORPORATION

No. 2981.

232 So.2d 136 (1970)

Mrs. Bertile ARDOIN, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. CROWN ZELLERBACH CORPORATION and Walter A. Zwilling, Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

On Denial of Rehearing March 5, 1970.

Writ Refused April 20, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dubuisson & Dubuisson, by James T. Guglielmo, Opelousas, for defendants-appellants.

Dischler & Tate, by Kearney Tate, Eunice, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TATE, CULPEPPER and MILLER, JJ.

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is a wrongful death action. Plaintiffs are respectively the widow and the minor daughter of Abraham Ardoin. He was killed when the pickup truck which he was driving was struck at a highway intersection by a large truck-trailer owned by the defendant, Crown Zellerbach Corporation, and being driven by the defendant, Walter A. Zwilling. The trial judge awarded the widow $15,000 and the minor daughter $5,000. Defendants appealed.

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