FREEMAN v. BUMBALOUGH

No. 44,385-CW.

17 So.3d 1032 (2009)

Sherree FREEMAN, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Jimmy BUMBALOUGH, James Construction Co. & Zurich American Ins. Co., Defendant-Respondent.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

August 19, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McKeithen, Ryland & Champagne by Louis V. Champagne, Columbia, Ashley P. Thomas, for Respondent, Sherree Freeman.

Gold, Weems, Bruser, Sues & Rundell by Peggy D. St. John, Alexandria, for Respondents, James Construction & Zurich American Ins. & Jimmy Bumbalough.

Mixon & Carroll, by James L. Carroll, Columbia, for Intervenor, Sherree Freeman, Tutor for Braydon Freeman.

La. Dept. of Justice, by James E. Calhoun, Paula E. Miles, for Applicant, State of La. DOTD.

Before CARAWAY, MOORE and LOLLEY, JJ.


MOORE, J.

The State of Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development ("DOTD") seeks supervisory review of a judgment denying its exception of improper venue. We grant the writ, make it peremptory, sustain the exception and remand the case with instructions.

Procedural Background

Sherree Freeman alleged that she was injured in Franklin Parish when a rig driven by Jimmy Bumbalough forced her off the paved surface of Hwy. 4 and into...

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