ROPER ON BEHALF OF ROPER v. GELSOMINO

Nos. 87-CA-19, 87-CA-20.

507 So.2d 868 (1987)

Patricia Ann Cambre, Wife of/and Claude J. ROPER, Jr. on Behalf of Their Deceased Daughter, Crystal Ann ROPER v. Johanna Gelsomino, Wife of/and Anthony GELSOMINO Ivy HODGIN v. Johanna Curry GELSOMINO and ABC Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Writ Denied July 1, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Gordon Johnson, Jr., Robert Lakey and Cynthia A. Bacher, Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee, State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

Leon C. Vial, III, Julie M. Burke, Hahnville, for defendants-appellees, Johanna Curry Gelsomino, et al.

Norman Mopsik & William Legrand, New Orleans, for plaintiffs/appellants, Patricia Ann Cambre, wife of/and Claude J. Roper, Jr.

Robert A. Buckley, Buckley and Buckley, Chalmette, for plaintiff-appellant, Ivy Hodgin.

Before CHEHARDY, KLIEBERT and BOWES, JJ.


BOWES, Judge.

These cases arose from a single tragic automobile accident in which Crystal Roper and Rod Cran, two minor teenagers, were killed and Mrs. Ivy Hodgin injured. Crystal and Rod were the only two occupants of the vehicle (owned by defendant George Templet) which veered into oncoming traffic on U.S. Highway 90 and collided with the Hodgin automobile. The big question in this litigation is which teenager was driving at the time. Crystal's parents filed suit...

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