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PRESTENBACH v. LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT

No. 93-CA-656.

638 So.2d 234 (1994)

Yvonne Mackles Prestenbach, Wife of and Thomas PRESTENBACH v. LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, INC., Arkansas Power & Light Company, Inc., and General Electric Corporation.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 18, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Val Patrick Exnicios, Samuel Richard Exnicios, John W. Redmann, Liska, Exnicios & Nungesser, New Orleans, for plaintiffs/appellants.

Eugene G. Taggart, Nora F. McAlister, Ann E. Levine, New Orleans, for defendants/appellees.

Before GAUDIN, GOTHARD and CANNELLA, JJ.

GOTHARD, Judge.

Yvonne Mackles Prestenbach filed this tort action seeking to recover for damages sustained when a twenty-five million volt transformer containing about 1400 gallons of mineral oil malfunctioned and ruptured. The resulting fire sent voluminous clouds of smoke into the air. Mrs. Prestenbach was a patron of the McDonald's Restaurant which is about one block from the power substation where the transformer was located. She was just about to enter the restaurant...

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