DUCOTE v. UNION PACIFIC R. CO.

Nos. 08-1208, 08-1001.

4 So.3d 240 (2009)

Quinn L. DUCOTE, et ux. v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 25, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth S. Hardy, Thomas & Hardy, Lake Charles, LA, for Plaintiffs/Appellants-Quinn L. Ducote and Judy Ducote.

John Edmund McElligott, Jr., Kevin M. Dills, Davidson, Meaux, Sonnier & McElligott, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant/Appellee-Union Pacific Railroad Company.

James D. "Buddy" Caldwell, Attorney General, Baton Rouge, LA, Laurel I. White, Assistant Attorney General, Alexandria, LA, for Defendant/Appellee-State of Louisiana, Thru The Department of Transportation and Development.

Court composed of ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge, ELIZABETH A. PICKETT, and BILLY HOWARD EZELL, Judges.


THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants, Quinn L. Ducote and Judy Ducote, assert that the trial court erred by granting a partial summary judgment in favor of the defendant, Union Pacific Railway Company (UP), and by denying the Ducotes' and Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development's (DOTD) motions to strike certain documents from the record. Defendant DOTD filed a separate writ application, claiming that...

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