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DAYE v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 29118-CA.

712 So.2d 120 (1997)

Peter DAYE, as Provisional Tutor of the Minor, Samuel Goodwin, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, et al., Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Writ Granted October 10, 1997.

Writ Denied October 10, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hudson, Potts & Bernstein by Jesse McDonald, Monroe, Lunn, Irion, Johnson, Salley & Carlisle by Charles Salley, Shreveport, Bernard, Cassisa & Elliott by Howard B. Kaplan, Metairie, for Defendant-Appellant General Motors Corporation.

Bodenheimer, Jones, Klotz & Simmons by Harry D. Simmons, Shreveport, for Defendant-Appellant Courtesy Chevrolet.

Wiener, Weiss, Madison & Howell by James F. Howell and Jeffrey Weiss, Shreveport, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before NORRIS, BROWN, WILLIAMS, GASKINS and CARAWAY, JJ.

Defendant's Writ Granted October 10, 1997.

Plaintiff's Writ Denied October 10, 1997.

CARAWAY, Judge.

In this personal injury case, sixteen-year-old Samuel Goodwin was seriously and permanently injured in September of 1986 when he lost control of his 1986 Corvette after he braked the vehicle while traveling through a curve of a highway. Following a trial held nine years later, the jury found that Goodwin was 75% at fault, and that the defendant car...

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