POPLAR v. DILLARD'S DEPT. STORES, INC.

No. 03-CA-1023.

864 So.2d 789 (2003)

Angel K. POPLAR v. DILLARD'S DEPARTMENT STORES, INC. and ABC Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

December 30, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin R. Fleischmann, Jr., Fleischmann Law Firm, Metairie, LA, Raymond S. Steib, Jr., Gretna, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Robert D. Peyton, Robert E. Peyton, Christovich & Kearney, L.L.P, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Panel composed of Judges EDWARD A. DUFRESNE, JR., JAMES L. CANNELLA and WALTER J. ROTHSCHILD.


EDWARD A. DUFRESNE, JR., Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by Dillard Department Stores, Inc., defendant-appellant, from a $16,617.40 judgment in favor of Angel Poplar, plaintiff-appellee, who broke several teeth when she bit into a foreign object in a shrimp po-boy at defendant's restaurant. Because we find neither legal nor manifest factual error in the judgment we affirm.

The facts are straightforward. At the time of the incident in question here, plaintiff...

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