PERRY v. LAW

Nos. 10737, 10738.

334 So.2d 523 (1976)

Elnora Tate PERRY, Individually and as Natural Tutrix of her minor children, Melvin Gerald Perry, Jr. and Morlan Perry, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Randy J. LAW et al., Defendants-Appellees. Jimmy PERRY, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Randy J. LAW et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearings Denied June 30, 1976.

Writs Refused September 24, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul H. Due, Baton Rouge, for Elnora Tate Perry in No. 10737 and Jimmy Perry, Jr., in No. 10738.

Iddo Pittman, Jr., Hammond, for Randy J. Law, Indiv. and State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

Joseph H. Simpson, Amite, for Randy J. Law, Indiv.

Before SARTAIN, CHIASSON and EDWARDS, JJ.


SARTAIN, Judge.

These consolidated cases were occasioned by a head-on collision which occurred on U. S. Highway 51 at approximately 5:20 P.M. o'clock on April 19, 1973, in the Parish of Tangipahoa, north of Amite, Louisiana.

Jimmy Perry, Jr. (Perry), accompanied by his brother, Melvin G. Perry (decedent), was driving his 1968 Chevrolet automobile in a southerly direction. Randy J. Law (Law) was driving his parents' 1972 LTD Ford automobile in a northerly direction...

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