ALLUMS v. PARISH OF LINCOLN

No. 44,304-CA.

15 So.3d 1117 (2009)

Latonya M. ALLUMS, Individually and on Behalf of her Minor Child, Kendall T. Allums, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The PARISH OF LINCOLN, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 13, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sockrider, Bolin, Anglin & Batte by James E. Bolin, Jr., Shreveport, for Appellant.

Bolen, Parker, Brenner & Lee Ltd. by Daniel G. Brenner, Alexandria, David L. Roberson, II, for Appellee, Lincoln Parish Lincoln Parish Police Jury.

Ira Jay Rosenweig, for Appellee, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

Before CARAWAY, PEATROSS and MOORE, JJ.


CARAWAY, J.

The traffic fatality in this case occurred in the rollover of a tractor-trailer truck on a rural parish road. The decedent failed to negotiate a curve in the road and the speed of the vehicle as a significant cause for the accident. The surviving family members instituted this action against the Parish claiming that the advance warning sign for the curve which was in place on the road should have also contained...

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