ROBERTSON v. POPEYE'S FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN, INC.,

No. CA-8851.

524 So.2d 97 (1988)

Richard ROBERTSON v. POPEYE'S FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied June 2, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Cherbonnier, Jr., Gretna, for appellant A. Copeland Enterprises.

Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson, & Sarpy, Glenn B. Adams, Cynthia A. Bacher, New Orleans, for intervenor-appellant State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.

Before GULOTTA, C.J., and LOBRANO and WARD, JJ.


GULOTTA, Chief Judge.

Appealing in this trip and fall tort case, an intervening worker's compensation insurer, seeks an increase in the jury's $17,226.57 award. The defendant owner of the premises where the accident occurred has also appealed, contending that the full amount the jury's verdict recovered by intervener should be reduced to the sum of $5,167.97, because plaintiff was 70% at fault for the accident. Although we find no abuse of the jury's discretion in...

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