VARNELL v. LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY

No. 30260-CA.

709 So.2d 890 (1998)

Margie Faye VARNELL, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

February 25, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William James Staser, LaVon Denise Raymond, Baton Rouge, for Defendants-Appellants.

Paul Boyd Wilkins, Gregory Lee Lewellyan, Columbia, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before NORRIS, BROWN and PEATROSS, JJ.


NORRIS, Judge.

Louisiana Tech University and the Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities appeal a judgment finding them 100% at fault in a slip and fall that injured the plaintiff, Margie Faye Varnell, and awarding Mrs. Varnell and her husband $576,454.47 in damages. The defendants (hereinafter, "the State") contest the allocation of fault as manifestly erroneous and two items of damage as duplicating other...

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