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TYRNEY v. CITY OF MADISONVILLE

No. 98 CA 1710.

745 So.2d 684 (1999)

Gene TYRNEY v. CITY OF MADISONVILLE, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1999.

Writ Denied February 4, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lamar M. Richardson, Jr., Mandeville, for Plaintiff-Appellant Gene Tyrney.

Paul A. Holmes, Baton Rouge, for Defendant-Appellee City of Madisonville.

Before: FOIL, FOGG, and GUIDRY, JJ.

FOGG, J.

By this tort action, Gene Tyrney seeks to recover damages from the City of Madisonville for injuries he received while attempting to rescue a woman from the Tchefuncte River. For the following reasons, we affirm the trial court's dismissal of the lawsuit.

On July 13, 1995, Gene Tyrney was employed as a bartender at the T. Rivers Bar on the Tchefuncte River in Madisonville, Louisiana, and his girlfriend was a patron of the bar. At approximately midnight...

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