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SOCORRO v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

Nos. 90-C-1633, 90-C-1653.

579 So.2d 931 (1991)

Franz SOCORRO v. The CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, The State of Louisiana, and The Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Dismissed June 13, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent J. Glorioso, Jr., Ronald A. Welcker, Glorioso & Welcker, New Orleans, and Edward A. Kaufman, Jeffrey Dickstein, and David W. Robertson, Baton Rouge, for Franz Socorro, plaintiff-applicant.

Phillip A. Wittmann, Stephen H. Kupperman, Charles L. Stern, Jr., Alex J. Peragine, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, and Raymon G. Jones, and Jaime C. Waters, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, for Bd. of Com'rs of the Orleans Levee Dist.

Robert A. Redwine and Alan D. Ezkovich, Sessions & Fishman, New Orleans, for City of New Orleans, defendant-respondent.

CALOGERO, Chief Justice.

This is a personal injury lawsuit for damages sustained when the plaintiff, Franz Socorro, dove from the bulkhead at Breakwater Point on Lake Pontchartrain and struck a submerged object. The plaintiff suffered injuries to his spinal cord resulting in permanent quadriplegia.

Socorro filed a petition for damages in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, naming as defendants the City of New Orleans, the Board of Commissioners...

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