DiMACCO v. HENRY

No. 5751.

286 So.2d 399 (1973)

Benedetto DiMACCO v. Kinder HENRY et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 30, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Young & Mars, Theodore A. Mars, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Jones, Walker Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Donald O. Collins, New Orleans, for Blaine Kern Artists, Inc., and Phoenix of Hartford Ins. Co., defendants-appellees.

Julian B. Humphrey, New Orleans, for Blaine Kern Artists, Inc., defendant-appellee.

Peter J. Compagno and Frank J. Uddo, New Orleans, for The Greater New Orleans Italian Cultural Society, third party defendant-appellee.

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Francis G. Weller, New Orleans, for Continental Casualty Co., defendant-appellee.

Before LEMMON, STOULIG and BAILES, JJ.


STOULIG, Judge.

Plaintiff, Benedetto DiMacco, was one of a two-man motorcycle detail assigned by the New Orleans Police Department to convoy a float from Algiers to the City Hall in New Orleans to be used in a St. Joseph's Day Parade. Some three blocks after the convoy began and before it had crossed the Greater New Orleans Mississippi Bridge, plaintiff was struck in the back by the float causing the injuries forming the basis of this action. Named as defendants were...

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