ALFORD v. ESTATE OF ZANCA

Nos. 89-CA-220, 89-CA-219.

552 So.2d 7 (1989)

Rosie Creppel ALFORD, et al. v. ESTATE OF Anthony v. ZANCA, Jr.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

October 12, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Law Offices of Owen J. Bradley, Michael R. Guidry, New Orleans, and Gaudin & Gaudin, Pierre F. Gaudin, Sr., Gretna, for Quitman Alford, Jr., and Sheila Alford, individually and as legal tutrix of the minor, Kevin J. Dermody, plaintiffs-appellants.

Lawrence D. Wiedemann, Allain F. Hardin, New Orleans, for Rosie Alford, plaintiff-appellant.

Emile R. St. Pierre, APLC Destrehan, for defendant-appellee.

Ronny J. Champlin, Baton Rouge, for the State of La., through the Dept. of Transp. and Development, defendant-appellee.

Before CHEHARDY, C.J., and BOWES and GOTHARD, JJ.


CHEHARDY, Chief Judge.

This suit and its companion case, Zanca v. State of Louisiana, et al., 552 So.2d 14 (La.App. 5 Cir.1989), arise from a head-on two-car collision on U.S. Hwy. 61 about 1,200 feet east of the Bonnet Carre Spillway Bridge in St. Charles Parish. Five of the occupants of the cars died; the sole survivor, a four-year-old boy, sustained serious injuries. Judgment was rendered absolving the state Department...

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