WASKOM v. CACIOPPO

Nos. 10888-10890.

339 So.2d 464 (1976)

John K. WASKOM v. Frank CACIOPPO. LOUISIANA FARM BUREAU MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. Frank T. CACIOPPO. Frank T. CACIOPPO v. MILLER FORD COMPANY, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 15, 1976.

Writ Refused January 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald J. Brumfield of James, Knight and Brumfield, Franklinton, for plaintiff John K. Waskom.

John D. Kopfler, Hammond, for defendant Frank T. Cacioppo.

Emile L. Turner, Jr., New Orleans, for third party defendant Miller Ford Co.

Robert E. Barkley, Jr. of Sessions, Fishman, Rosenson, Snellings & Boisfontaine, New Orleans, for third party defendant Fred Jones Mfg. Co.

John N. Gallaspy of Gallaspy & Paduda, Bogalusa, for plaintiff Louisiana Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co.

Before SARTAIN, BLANCHE and LOTTINGER, JJ.


BLANCHE, Judge.

These consolidated suits arise from an accident which occurred on Louisiana Highway No. 10 in Washington Parish, Louisiana. The accident took place when Frank T. Cacioppo, appellant, was unable to stop for a school bus that was slowing down to pick up a child of John K. Waskom, appellee, whose house and farm buildings were located on the south side of the highway. As appellant was following the bus, he allegedly applied his brakes in order to bring...

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