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JOHNSON v. GANTT

No. 24008-CA.

606 So.2d 854 (1992)

James M. JOHNSON and Mattie Cortez Johnson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael A. GANTT, Defendant, and the Town of Cullen, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Writ Denied November 30, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mayer, Smith & Roberts by Steven E. Soileau, Shreveport, for appellant Town of Cullen.

Charles A. Smith, Minden, John M. Robinson, Springhill, for appellees James & Mattie Johnson.

Before MARVIN, C.J., and NORRIS and BROWN, JJ.

MARVIN, Chief Judge.

In this wrongful death action, we affirm a judgment against the Town of Cullen totalling $380,000 in favor of the parents of 20-year-old Monty Johnson, who was killed when his 23-year-old friend, Michael Gantt, an armed and uniformed Cullen policeman, accidentally shot him in the Cullen police station 15 minutes or so after he and another friend returned to the station with Officer Gantt about an hour after Gantt signed off duty around midnight...

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