CRAIN, Judge.
This is an appeal of a judgment awarding damages to a widow and children in a wrongful death action.
In 1977, Charles Michel died from drowning after he drove his pickup truck off a bridge. The bridge is located in Ascension Parish on Laurel Ridge Road, a dead-end road that intersects La. 935. The bridge was constructed over a drainage canal by the Ascension Parish Police Jury and is maintained by the police jury. In 1972 the police jury had...
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