NELSON v. BURKEEN CONST. CO.

No. 30761-CA.

717 So.2d 261 (1998)

Chauncy Theron Fitch NELSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BURKEEN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

August 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Travis L. Bourgeois, New Orleans, Mack Barham, Robert Baldwin, Monroe, for Defendant-Appellant Burkeen Const. Co.

Paul Holmes, Baton Rouge, for Defendant-Appellant City of Bastrop.

Joe B. Cordill, Jr., Shreveport, for Defendant-Appellant Dr. R. Nelson.

James R. Madison, Joseph Naus, Shreveport, for Plaintiff-Appellee Chauncy Nelson.

Before MARVIN, C.J., and HIGHTOWER and BROWN, JJ.


BROWN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Chauncy Theron Fitch Nelson, and his brother, Tracy Fitch Nelson, are the natural children of Willie Fitch, born of his marriage to Winnifred Washington Fitch. The Fitches divorced and the two children were adopted by Winnifred's second husband, Dr. Richard T. Nelson, Jr.

Willie Fitch, an employee of the Morehouse Parish Highway Department, was standing between two parked vehicles when a Burkeen Construction Company truck struck one...

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