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MURRAY v. RAMADA INNS, INC.

No. 87 CQ 1846.

521 So.2d 1123 (1988)

Clementine MURRAY and Carmen R. Wright, Guardian ad litem for Adrian Lavonne Wright, Minor v. RAMADA INNS, INC., Interstate Motor Lodges of Shreveport, Inc., Barker Development and Management, Inc. and Aetna Casualty & Surety Company.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 29, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian D. Smith, Lunn, Irion, Johnson, Salley & Carlisle, Shreveport, H. Alston Johnson, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellants.

John E. McKay, Peter A. Martin, David Robertson, Baton Rouge, Bennett L. Politz, Shreveport, for plaintiffs-appellees.

CERTIFIED QUESTION FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

CALOGERO, Justice.

Today we are called upon to resolve the role, if any, which the assumption of risk defense continues to play in Louisiana tort law, given the Legislature's adoption of a comparative fault system. The issue has presented itself in a case certified to us by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Murray v. Ramada Inn, Inc.,

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