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JONES v. PHILLIPS

No. 03-CA-636.

861 So.2d 618 (2003)

Sheree JONES v. Sean PHILLIPS and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

November 12, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Strauss, Christian A. Garbett, King, LeBlanc and Bland, New Orleans, LA, for defendants-appellants, Sean Phillips and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

Elizabeth M. Gaudin, Hilary G. Gaudin, Gaudin & Gaudin, Gretna, LA, for plaintiff-appellee, Sheree Jones.

Panel composed of Judges SOL GOTHARD, MARION F. EDWARDS and SUSAN M. CHEHARDY.

SUSAN M. CHEHARDY, Judge.

This is an auto accident case in which the trial court awarded the plaintiff $20,000.00, but found the defendant driver eighty percent at fault and the plaintiff driver twenty percent at fault, resulting in a net award of $16,000.00 to the plaintiff. The defendants appeal, seeking reapportionment of fault and/or reduction of the damages awarded. We affirm.

The suit arose out of a March 26, 1999 collision between vehicles driven by...

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