CORMIER v. COMEAUX

No. 98-C-2378.

748 So.2d 1123 (1999)

Patricia Deshotel CORMIER, et al. v. Mickey L. COMEAUX, et al. Mickey Louis Comeaux, et al., v. State of Louisiana, Through the DOTD.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied September 3, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Soileau, Rayne, Counsel for Applicant.

Raleigh Newman, J. Rock Palermo, III, John Ezell Jackson, Lake Charles, Jack Derrick Miller, Crowley, Counsel for Respondent.

Bradley Charles Myers, John Francis Jakuback, Lana Davis Crump, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Louisiana Municipal Association (Amicus Curiae).


VICTORY, J.*

We granted a writ to determine if a highway constructed in 1931 contains unreasonably hazardous defects such that liability should be imposed on the State of Louisiana, through the DOTD (the "DOTD"), for injuries caused to the plaintiffs when their car left the highway and struck the back embankment of a roadside ditch. After reviewing the record and the applicable law, we reverse...

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