BLAIR v. TYNES

No. CA 91 1846.

610 So.2d 956 (1992)

Scott BLAIR, Individually and on Behalf of the Minor Children Jewell Scott Blair, Jr., Michael Harrison Blair, and Susan Jones Hillhouse v. Michael L. TYNES, Norman Tynes, Washington Parish Sheriff's Department, Through Its Sheriff Benny Rayburn, ABC Insurance Company, DEF Insurance Company, GHI Insurance Company, and JKL Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Granted February 5, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Collett, Bogalusa, for Scott Blair.

Donald M. Fendlason, Bogalusa, for MCCA.

H.F. Foster, New Orleans, for American Legion.

Fred Schroeder, Metairie, for Sheriff of Washington Parish.

Steven Lozes, New Orleans, for Michael Tynes.

Before LOTTINGER, C.J., FOIL, J., and COVINGTON, J. Pro Tem.


GROVER L. COVINGTON, Judge Pro Tem.

This suit arises out of an accident between a single vehicle and two pedestrians, in which one woman was killed instantly and the other seriously injured. The motorist was a twenty-year old man with two previous DWI convictions, who was found to have been driving with a .16 blood alcohol content, and who failed to yield to traffic control signals of deputies who were directing traffic at the time. He struck the two women who were...

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