LAMBERT v. STATE

No. 40,170-CA.

912 So.2d 426 (2005)

Roy LAMBERT, et al., Plaintiffs-Second Appellants v. STATE of Louisiana, et al., Defendants-Appellees Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District, Defendant-First Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

September 30, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hodge O'Neal, III, Monroe, Daniel P. Parker, for Plaintiffs-2nd Appellants, Roy Lambert, Dennis Lambert, John Lambert & Kimberly Lambert Capps.

Richard A. Bailly, Baton Rouge, Laurel McDonald White, Louisiana Dept. of Justice, for Defendant-1st Appellant, Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed.

John F. Frederickson, Assistant Attorney General, for Defendants-Appellees, State of Louisiana, DWLF, DOTD, & DNR.

L. Frederick Shroeder, II, for Defendant-Appellee, Union Parish Sheriff's Office.

Before BROWN, WILLIAMS, and MOORE, JJ.


BROWN, C.J.

Plaintiffs in this wrongful death/survivorship action are the children of Jimmy Lambert and Peggy Lambert, who drowned on February 19, 2001, shortly after launching their small fishing boat from what is known as the "high water boat ramp" adjacent to the Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Spillway/Dam.1 The high water boat ramp is on the north side of Bayou D'Arbonne just below the spillway. The body of water on the downstream side of the...

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