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RATLIFF v. STATE EX REL. DOTD

No. 2002 CA 0733.

844 So.2d 926 (2003)

Threntha Lynn RATLIFF, Individually, and as Tutrix of the Estate of Sonya Ratliff, Minor and Clorenda Ratliff, Minor, and Allen Ratliff, Darlene Ratliff Owens v. STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 30, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Paduda, Jr., Bogalusa, Counsel for Plaintiffs/Appellees Threntha Lynn Ratliff, Individually and as Tutrix of the Estate of Sonya Ratliff, Minor, Clorenda Ratliff, Minor, and Allen Ratliff and Darlene Ratliff Owens.

Craig J. Robichaux, Mandeville, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant State of Louisiana, Department of Transportation and Development.

Before: FOIL, McCLENDON, and KLINE, JJ.

McCLENDON, Judge.

This appeal arises from a wrongful death and survival action award against the State of Louisiana for an automobile accident that occurred on the Pearl River Bridge, spanning the Pearl River between Louisiana and Mississippi. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On April 19, 1986, plaintiffs' mother, Bertha Ratliff Peters, while a passenger in a vehicle driven by Thomas Davis, was mortally injured...

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