State Farm v. Southern Pacific

Full title: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, ET AL.…

Court: Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit

Date published: Aug 7, 1991

586 So. 2d 1390 (La. Ct. App. 1991)

Opinion

No. 90-60.

August 7, 1991.

Appeal from Thirty-First Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson Davis; William N. Knight, Judge.

Raligh Newman, Lake Charles, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Stockwell, Sievert, Viccellio, Clements Shaddock, David L. Bateman, Lake Charles, for defendants-appellants.

Raggio, Cappel, Chozen Berniard, Thomas L. Raggio, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellee — Sopac.

Before STOKER, LABORDE and KNOLL, JJ.

STOKER, Judge.

This is a companion suit to Corbello v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company, 586 So.2d 1383 (La.App. 3d Cir. 1991). For the reasons assigned in Corbello v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company, we affirm the judgment of the trial court. Costs of this appeal are assessed one-half to plaintiffs-appellees and one-half to defendant-appellant.

AFFIRMED.

KNOLL, J., concurs and assigns written reasons.

[4] KNOLL, Judge, concurring.

I concur for the reasons stated in the companion case, Corbello v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company, 586 So.2d 1383 (La.App. 3d Cir. 1991).