DUFFIE v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSP. CO.

No. CA 89 0498.

563 So.2d 933 (1990)

Victoria Marie DUFFIE, Individually and as Natural Tutrix of Her Minor Child, Fletchell Shamene Lockridge v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, ABC Insurance Company, Travelers Insurance Company and/or Travelers Indemnity Company, National Railroad Passenger Corporation d/b/a AMTRAK, DEF Insurance Company, The State of Louisiana Through the Department of Transportation and Development, GHI Insurance Company, The Parish of St. Mary, XYZ Insurance Company, Ernest O. Kramer, J.F. Feeney and W.P. Credeur.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

May 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elwood C. Stevens, Jr., Kleinpeter, Schwartzberg & Stevens, Morgan City, for plaintiff.

Alfred Smith Landry, Landry, Watkins & Bonin, New Iberia, for Parish of St. Mary.

J. Louis Gibbens, Gibbens & Blackwell, New Iberia, for Travelers Ins. Co.

John E. McElligott, Jr., Davidson, Meaux, Sonnier & McElligott, Lafayette, for Southern Pacific Transp. Co., Nat. R.R. Passenger Corp., Ernest O. Kraemer, J.F. Feeney and W.P. Credeur.

William J. Doran, Jr., Baton Rouge, for State of La., Dept. of Transp. & Development.

William H. Cooper, Cooper, Thompson & Pierson, Baton Rouge, for Fletcher Lockridge—Intervenor-appellant.

Before COVINGTON, C.J., and WATKINS and DOHERTY, JJ.


COVINGTON, Chief Judge.

This suit arises out of an automobile/train collision on October 26, 1985, wherein Fletchell Shemene Lockridge, a minor, was killed. On October 20, 1986, Fletchell Shamene Lockridge's mother, Victoria Marie Duffie, brought a survival action and wrongful death action against various defendants. Additional suits were filed on behalf of survivors of other persons who were killed in the automobile/train accident shortly following the above suit...

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