PELLEGAL v. DUREAU

No. CA 0227.

427 So.2d 55 (1983)

Etienne PELLEGAL, Jr. and Joyce Trouillet, Wife of Etienne Pellegal, Jr., Individually and as Administrators of the Estate of Their Minor Child, Todd Lance Pellegal. v. Eugene DUREAU (Ralph Ferranto, International Surplus Lines, Inc. Herman Schoenberger, Sheriff, Parish of Plaquemines, and the Sheriff's Office for the Parish of Plaquemines, State of Louisiana).

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

February 3, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick J. Gisevius, Jr., David E. Caruso, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.

A.W. Wambsgans, Cronvich, Wambsgans & Michalczyk, Metairie, for defendants-appellees.

Before REDMANN, SCHOTT and WILLIAMS, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

This is a suit for damages sustained by plaintiff, Todd Lance Pellegal, in an accidental shooting by Eugene Dureau. Joined as defendants were Ralph Ferranto, Chief Deputy Sheriff of Plaquemines Parish, Herman Schoenberger, the Sheriff, and International Surplus Lines, an insurer, on the ground that Ferranto was negligent in supplying Dureau with the gun when he should have known that Dureau was incompetent and that Schoenberger was vicariously liable...

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