TRAHAN v. HIGHLANDS INS. CO.

No. 5822.

343 So.2d 1163 (1977)

Mrs. Joan TRAHAN, Individually and for and on behalf of the minor, Belinda Sue Trahan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HIGHLANDS INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 5, 1977.

Writ Refused June 1, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Plauche, Smith & Hebert, Allen L. Smith, Jr., Lake Charles, for third party plaintiffs-appellants.

Peter A. Ciambotti, Baggett, McClain & Morgan, William B. Baggett, Scofield, Bergstedt & Gerard, Benjamin W. Mount, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellee.

Camp, Carmouche, Palmer, Carwile & Barsh, James E. Williams, Lake Charles, Stockwell, Sievert, Viccellio & Clements by Fred H. Sievert, Jr., Woodley, Fenet & Ranier by Edmund E. Woodley, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellee.

Before CULPEPPER, GUIDRY and FORET, JJ.


GUIDRY, Judge.

In this action Mrs. Joan Trahan filed suit individually and on behalf of her minor child, seeking damages for the death of her husband, Norman Trahan. Norman Trahan was employed by Tiger Well Service, Inc., as a derrickman, and was fatally injured when an oil rig derrick on which he was working collapsed and fell. The accident occurred on January 3, 1975. Defendants at the trial1

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