PORROVECCHIO v. SALATHE OIL CO.

No. 13076.

420 So.2d 988 (1982)

Joseph PORROVECCHIO v. SALATHE OIL COMPANY and the Continental Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

September 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ballay & Braud, A Professional Law Corp., Stephen C. Braud, Belle Chasse, for plaintiff-appellee.

Owen W. Joyner, Metairie, for defendants-appellants Salathe Oil Co. and The Continental Ins. Co.

Before GULOTTA, KLEES and AUGUSTINE, JJ.


GULOTTA, Judge.

Defendants, appealing, claim an $18,000.00 general damage award for a "garden variety soft-tissue injury" of the neck and back "of several months duration" is excessive.

This matter was submitted on plaintiff's testimony and that of an investigating officer, together with a hospital report and reports of an orthopedic surgeon and a neurologist.

In written reasons, the trial judge concluded that plaintiff had sustained various injuries...

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