BECNEL v. WARD

No. 5865.

286 So.2d 731 (1973)

Thelma BECNEL, wife of/and Morris Becnel v. Robert L. WARD et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 8, 1974.

Writ Refused March 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Kliebert, Becnel & Kliebert, Gramercy, for plaintiff-appellee.

C. Gordon Johnson, Jr., Geoffrey H. Longnecker, Porteous, Toledano, Hainkel & Johnson, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before REDMANN, GULOTTA and SCHOTT, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

From a $520,000 personal injury judgment the individual defendants appeal on liability and quantum and plaintiffs by answer to appeal seek increase in quantum. (Defendant insurer has satisfied the judgment against itself by paying its $10,000 bodily injury limit plus property damage.)

Liability is clear. Defendant wife's car rear-ended plaintiff wife's car in daylight on an open two-lane highway, while plaintiff wife was stopped waiting to...

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