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BERTRAND v. KRATZER'S COUNTRY MART

No. 89-164.

563 So.2d 1302 (1990)

Lorraine BERTRAND and Gail Guidry, as surviving parents of the minor child, Shannon Wade Guidry, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KRATZER'S COUNTRY MART, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burns & Godfrey, Benjamin O. Burns, Lafayette, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Woodley, Williams, Fenet, Palmer, Doyle & Norman, James Williams, Lake Charles, for defendants-appellees.

Before DOMENGEAUX, C.J., and GUIDRY and KNOLL, JJ.

DOMENGEAUX, Chief Judge.

Shortly after 7 p.m. on April 12, 1986, a pickup truck driven by Jerry Kratzer struck and killed fifteen year old Shannon Wade Guidry, a bicyclist who had stopped to rest several feet from the road. When Kratzer turned himself in after the accident, his blood alcohol level was .250. Around midnight that evening, Jerry Kratzer committed suicide. At the time of his death, his blood alcohol level was .175.

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