MORAUS v. STATE THROUGH DEPT. OF TRANSP. & DEV.

No. 8078.

396 So.2d 596 (1981)

Govie MORAUS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION & DEVELOPMENT, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

March 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren D. Ponder, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

Riddle & Bennett, John T. Bennett, Marksville, for plaintiff-appellee.

Joseph B. Olinde, Jr., Baton Rouge, for intervenor-appellee.

Simmons, Nelson & Dunn, Vince Dunn, Jr., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee.

Before CULPEPPER, FORET and SWIFT, JJ.


SWIFT, Judge.

The State of Louisiana, through the Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), has appealed a judgment in favor of Govie Moraus, Lydia Armstrong and Ann Marie Lacy awarding each damages allegedly sustained as a result of a collision.

The facts of the accident are relatively undisputed. On December 5, 1978, at approximately 6:45 a. m. Joseph Y. Moraus was driving his pickup truck in which his father, Govie Moraus, was a passenger southerly...

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