POIRIER v. ACADIANA BOTTLING CO., INC.

No. 93-919.

635 So.2d 1275 (1994)

Dudley POIRIER and Harriet Poirier; Acadiana Bottling Company, Inc., Transcontinental Insurance Company & Everett Castillo, Plaintiffs-Appellants (Poiriers), v. ACADIANA BOTTLING CO., INC., Transcontinental Insurance Company (incorrectly named as CNA Insurance Company) & Everett B. Castillo; Clajus Bernard & Aetna Casualty & Surety Company (incorrectly named as ABC Insurance Company), Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 19, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Minos Simon, for Dudley Poirier etc.

Alan K. Breaud, for Acadiana Bottling Co., Inc. et al.

Leslie Jo Mahfouz, for Clajus Bernard.

Before YELVERTON, SAUNDERS and DECUIR, JJ.


YELVERTON, Judge.

This is an appeal by Dudley Poirier and his wife Harriet, the plaintiffs, from a judgment based on a jury verdict rejecting their demands for damages in a suit brought against Everett Castillo, Castillo's employer, and its insurer. Poirier claimed that he was standing on a highway when Castillo drove by him in a delivery truck, and that a mirror on the side of the truck hit Poirier in the head. The verdict in this case was that Castillo was not negligent...

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