SHEPARD v. LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT CO., INC.

No. 13820.

369 So.2d 1196 (1979)

Woodrow SHEPARD et ux., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT CO., INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 3, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McKeithen, Burns & Wilkins by Paul B. Wilkins, Columbia, La., for plaintiffs-appellants, Woodrow Shepard and Elba Shepard.

Theus, Grisham, David & Leigh by J. Michael Hart, Monroe, for defendant-appellee, Louisiana Power & Light Co., Inc.

Lunn, Irion, Switzer, Johnson & Salley by Frank M. Walker, Jr., Shreveport, for defendant-appellee, Niagara Fire Ins. Co.

Hudson, Potts & Bernstein by William J. Knight, Monroe, for defendant-appellee, Allstate Ins. Co.

Davenport, Files, Kelly & Marsh by Mack J. Marsh, Monroe, and Blanchard Walker, O'Quin & Roberts by William Timothy Allen, III, Shreveport, for defendants-appellees, Bd. of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities.

Benjamin M. Peters, Asst. Atty. Gen., Monroe, for defendants-appellees, John David Crow and James T. Coats.

Hayes, Harkey, Smith & Cascio by Charles S. Smith, Monroe, for defendantappellee, William J. Roszelle.

Snellings, Breard, Sartor, Shafto & Inabnett by Kent Breard, Monroe, for defendant-appellee, State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

Before BOLIN, PRICE and MARVIN, JJ.


En Banc. Rehearing Denied May 3, 1979.

MARVIN, Judge.

In this wrongful death action the appeal is from summary judgments rejecting the demands of the surviving parents against the employer and co-employees of their late son. We affirm.

The 18-year-old decedent was a student at Northeast Louisiana University, where he was also employed as one of the student managers of the football team. With other employees he was moving a metal observation tower from...

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