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SLEDGE v. LA. DEPT. OF TRANSP. & DEVELOPMENT

Nos. 85 CA 0648, 86 CA 0470, 86 CA 0471 and 86 CA 0472.

492 So.2d 139 (1986)

Thomas SLEDGE, et ux. v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT (Office of Highways and/or Office of Aviation and Public Transportation), Terrebonne Parish Police Jury, and the State of Louisiana. Cyrus THERIOT, Jr. v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT (Office of Highways and/or Office of Aviation and Public Transportation) and Terrebonne Parish Police Jury. Galen J. DUPLANTIS v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT (Office of Highways and/or Office of Aviation and Public Transportation) and Terrebonne Parish Police Jury and the State of Louisiana. Mona Dehart VOISIN, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Bruce J. Voisin and as Natural Tutrix of the Minor, Chad Anthony Dehart v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT (Office of Highways and/or Office of Aviation and Public Transportation) and Terrebonne Parish Police Jury and the State of Louisiana.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied October 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glynn F. Voisin, Houma, for plaintiffs and appellees—Thomas Sledge.

Denis J. Gaubert, III, Michael St. Martin, Houma, for plaintiffs—Cyrus Theriot, Jr., Mona Dehart Voisin and Galen Duplantis.

D. Kirk Boswell and Rufus C. Harris, III, New Orleans, for third party defendant and appellant—Caryl Antony Vaughan Gibbs, as Lloyd's Underwriters' Nominee.

Philip E. Henderson, Houma, for third party defendant/appellee North River Ins. Co. and Intern. Surplus Lines Ins. Co.

Before CARTER, SAVOIE and ALFORD, JJ.

CARTER, Judge.

These consolidated actions arise of ferry boat accidents which occurred on the Houma Navigational Canal.

Facts

After a pontoon bridge crossing the Houma Navigation Canal was damaged in a marine casualty, the Terrebonne Parish Police Jury (Police Jury), through its state representative, approached the State of Louisiana, Department of Transportation & Development (DOTD), and requested the loan of a vehicular cable ferry to make...

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