SMITH v. MAXENT

Nos. 5545-5547.

283 So.2d 313 (1973)

Jesse O. SMITH and Lititz Mutual Insurance Company v. Dorothy MAXENT et al. Dorothy MAXENT, as natural tutrix and on behalf of her minor child, Willie Maxent, et al. v. Steve JOHNSON et al. Ernestine JONES, wife of Steve JOHNSON, Individually and as natural tutrix and administratrix of the Estate of her minor son, Wilfred Johnson v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

September 26, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fontana & Koerner, Louis R. Koerner, Jr., New Orleans, for Jesse O. Smith, plaintiff-appellant.

Bienvenu & Culver, Leonard A. Young, New Orleans, for Lititz Mutual Ins. Co., plaintiff-appellant.

Edna Sakir, New Orleans, for Wilfred Johnson, defendant-appellee and plaintiff-appellant.

A. R. Christovich, Jr., and C. B. Ogden, II, New Orleans, for New Orleans Public Service Inc., defendant-appellee.

Roger B. Jacobs, New Orleans, for Dorothy Maxent, defendant-appellee and plaintiff-appellant, and Willie Maxent, Ronald Olezene, James Lee and Bill Toney, plaintiffs-appellants.

Before REDMANN, LEMMON and STOULIG, JJ.


STOULIG, Judge.

The appeals in these consolidated cases involve claims for personal injuries and property damages sustained by multiple plaintiffs as the result of an automobile-bus collision in the intersection of Jackson Avenue and Annunciation Street in the City of New Orleans. All occupants of the automobile and one bus passenger filed personal injury suits. After the impact, the bus went out of control, running into a doughnut shop on the uptown-lake corner of...

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