SCOTT v. STATE, DEPT. OF TRANSP. AND DEVELOP.

No. 82 CA 0059.

424 So.2d 284 (1982)

Kuumba Nakazia SCOTT and Dorothy Scott, as Dative Tutrix v. STATE of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Bouterie, Jr., of Deramee & Deramee, David L. Landry, Thibodaux, for plaintiff-appellee Kuumba Nakazia Scott, etc.

Frank A. Betanski, Jr., Warren D. Ponder, Dept. of Transp. and Development, William J. Doran, Jr., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant State of Louisiana, Dept. of Transp.

Before LOTTINGER, COLE and CARTER, JJ.


LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a wrongful death and survival action brought by the dative tutrix of the minor Kuumba Nakazia Scott against the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Transportation and Development, for the death of Kuumba's mother, Ms. Charlene Scott. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant has appealed.

The trial judge assigned excellent written reasons for judgment which we adopt as our own:

"This case deals with a one...

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