MAZE v. GROGAN

No. 96 CA 1413.

694 So.2d 1168 (1997)

Ivy Jean MAZE and Darrell Joseph Maze; Individually and on Behalf of their Deceased Child, Felicia Lasha Maze, v. Marvin GROGAN, State Farm Insurance Companies, Aaron L. Willoughby, Imperial Fire and Casualty Insurance Company, Patterson Police Department, through James E. Senette, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Chief of Police of the Patterson Police Department, the City of Patterson, Through C.A. "Gus" Lipari, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Mayor of the City of Patterson.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

May 9, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony P. Lewis, Thibodaux, and Anthony Thibodeaux, Morgan City, for Appellant Plaintiff Ivy Jean Maze, et al.

John Wilkes, Lafayette, and Janet F. Hernandez-Weimer, Lafayette, for Appellees Defendants Patterson Police Department, et al.

Julius W. Grubbs, Jr., New Iberia, for Aaron L. Willoughby and Imperial Fire & Casualty.

Robert B. Butler, III, Houma, for Marvin Grogan and State Farm.

Charles Plattsmier, Baton Rouge, for James Senette.

Before LOTTINGER, C.J., and FOIL and FOGG, JJ.


FOIL, Judge.

This appeal challenges a trial court's factual determination that an automobile accident did not occur during the course and scope of a police officer's employment with the defendant police department. We find no error in that ruling, and affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On February 19, 1994, Felicia Maze was killed in a vehicular accident when her fiancee, Marvin Grogan, drove his Mazda Protege into the path of an oncoming...

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