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EWING v. STATE EX REL DEPT. OF TRANSP.

No. 99-1556.

757 So.2d 843 (2000)

Virginia EWING, et al. v. STATE of Louisiana, Through DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

March 15, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Delphin, Delphin Law Firm, P.L.C., Lake Charles, Louisiana, Eulis Simien, Jimmy Simien, Simien & Simien, L.L.C., Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Counsel for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Frank Walker, Plauché, Smith & Nieset, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Counsel for Defendant-Gravity Drainage District No. 4.

Chris John, Asst. City Attorney, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Counsel for Defendant-City of Lake Charles-Appellee.

Steven Beverung, Book & Beverung, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Counsel for Defendant-Sheriff of Calcasieu Parish-Appellee.

Fred Cappel, Raggio, Cappel, Chozen & Berniard, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Counsel for Defendant-Calcasieu Parish Police Jury-Appellee.

Joe Brame, Brame & McCain, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Victor Stilwill, Le Kohler, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, Louisiana, Counsel for Defendant-D.W. Jessen, Sr. and D.W. Jessen & Assoc.-Appellee.

Robert Ellender, Voohries & Labbe, Lafayette, Louisiana, Counsel for Defendant-D.W. Jessen, Sr.

(Court composed of Judge JIMMIE C. PETERS, Judge GLENN B. GREMILLION, and Judge ELIZABETH A. PICKETT).

GREMILLION, Judge.

The plaintiff, Virginia Ewing, individually and on behalf of her minor children, Aaron and Latasha Marie Myles, appeals the trial court's granting of summary judgment in favor of the defendants, the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, D.W. Jessen, Sr., and D.W. Jessen & Associates. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS

On June 24, 1996, Aaron, who was eleven years old, slipped and fell into the drainage ditch known as the Woodring...

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