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HILL v. LOUISIANA STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS

Nos. 13127, 13128.

426 So.2d 210 (1982)

Helen A. HILL, et als. v. LOUISIANA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS. Leo R. WOOLVERTON v. Victoria PARKER, John Doe Parker, Haywood Williamson, State of Louisiana, Department of Highways, Government Employees Insurance Company and Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 24, 1983.

Writ Denied March 18, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin R. Fleischmann, Jr., Jerald N. Andry & Gilbert V. Andry, III, New Orleans, for Helen A. Hill, et al, plaintiffs-appellants.

Christopher E. Lawler and Robert C. Stern, Donovan & Lawler, Metairie, for Leo Woolverton, plaintiff-appellant.

W. Monroe Stephenson, New Orleans for Victoria Parker, defendant-appellant.

David W. Robertson, Susan M. Theisen, Gravel, Robertson & Brady, Alexandria, for Plaquemines Parish Commission Council, third-party defendant-appellee.

Philip K. Jones, Norman L. Session, Marshall W. Wroten and Jesse S. Guillot, New Orleans, for Louisiana Department of Highways, defendant-appellee.

Alan Dean Weinberger, Hammett, Leake & Hammett, New Orleans, for GEICO, defendant-appellant.

S. Daniel Meeks, Hebert & Abbott, New Orleans, for Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co., defendant-appellant.

Before GULOTTA, KLEES and AUGUSTINE, JJ.

AUGUSTINE, Judge.

The single question upon which this appeal turns is whether the trial court erred in finding that the automobile collision which resulted in plaintiff's injuries was not caused by the condition of the roadway, but rather by the defendant's negligence. Such questions of fact are to be resolved with considerable deference to the trial court, whose findings we will not disturb in the absence of manifest error. Arceneaux v. Dominque,

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