BOUDREAUX v. STATE, DOTD

No. 96 CA 0137.

690 So.2d 114 (1997)

Jean BOUDREAUX and the Victims of the Flood on April 6, 1983 on the Tangipahoa River v. STATE of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

February 14, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Byard Edwards, Jr., Andrew M. Edwards, Ponchatoula, and Jean-Paul Layrisson, New Orleans, for Plaintiffs-Appellees, Jean Boudreaux, et al.

Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General, Baton Rouge, and William J. Doran, Special Assistant to General Counsel, DOTD, Baton Rouge, and Julie Mobley Lafargue, Reginald W. Abrams, Abrams & Lafargue, Shreveport, for Defendant-Appellant, State of Louisiana, Department of Transportation and Development.

Before CARTER and PARRO, JJ., and McDONALD, J. Pro Tem.


PARRO, Judge.

In this class action for damages resulting from flooding, the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Transportation and Development ("DOTD") appeals the trial court judgment which denied its exception to plaintiffs' case as a class action and certified the plaintiffs' claims as a class action pursuant to LSA-C.C.P. arts. 591 and 592. For the following reasons, this court affirms.

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