MATTE v. CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS, INC.

No. 4790.

259 So.2d 653 (1972)

Beulah Lejeune MATTE et al. v. CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 4, 1972.

Writ Granted May 18, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwards, Edwards & Broadhurst, Homer E. Barousse, Jr., Crowley, for Beulah Lejeune Matte, plaintiff-appellant and as tutrix.

Stafford, Pitts & Bolen, Alexandria, Luke Petrovich, Buras, and Grove Stafford, Jr., Alexandria, for defendant-appellee.

Before CHASEZ, REDMANN and BOUTALL, JJ.


BOUTALL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment maintaining a peremptory exception of no cause of action, dismissing plaintiffs' suit.

Plaintiffs-appellants are the widow and children of Vorace Matte who was killed attempting to cross Louisiana Highway 23 near Port Sulphur, Louisiana. Matte and his wife had been passengers on a bus owned and operated by Continental Southern Lines, Inc., defendant-appellee herein, impleaded as Continental Trailways, Inc....

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