MIZELL v. STATE, THROUGH LA. DEPT. OF HWYS.

No. 13425.

398 So.2d 1136 (1980)

Doyle MIZELL et al. v. The STATE of Louisiana, Through the LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

On Rehearing March 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. D. Sledge and Randy Shipp, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

William J. Doran, Jr. and Marshall W. Wroten, Baton Rouge, for Hwy. Dept.

W. Arthur Abercrombie, Jr., Ben Louis Day, Baton Rouge, Richard A. Chopin, New Orleans, James W. Hailey, Jr., Metairie, France W. Watts, III, Franklinton, Duncan S. Kemp, III, Dist. Atty., Tangipahoa Parish, Amite, Lawrence J. Ernst, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

R. L. Booty, pro. per.

Jesse LaGarde, Amite, for La.Const.

Before ELLIS, COLE and WATKINS, JJ.


WATKINS, Judge.

This action was brought to obtain damages for severe injuries sustained by Brenda Mizell, Doyle Mizell, and Willie Hodges in a one car accident in which a 1967 Pontiac Bonneville four-door car struck the east bridge abutment of the Tangipahoa River Bridge, east of Amite, Louisiana. Judgment was rendered against the Department of Transportation and Development, State of Louisiana, (hereinafter referred to as "DOTD") in the following amounts for the...

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