VICE v. SANDOZ

Full title: ALVIN VICE, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. GREGORY J. SANDOZ, ET AL.…

Court: Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit

Date published: Jan 30, 1987

497 So. 2d 757 (La. Ct. App. 1987)

Opinion

No. 85-1239.

November 5, 1986. Rehearing Denied December 9, 1986. Writ Denied January 30, 1987.

S. Gerald Simon, John J. Simon, New Iberia, for plaintiff-appellee-appellant

L. Hallman Woods, New Iberia, for plaintiff-appellant-appellee.

Ralph W. Stephenson, Jr., Baton Rouge, Gibbens Blackwell, J. Louis Gibbens, Landry, Watkins Bonin, Wm. O. Bonin, New Iberia, Mouton, Roy, Alan K. Breaud, Lafayette, Voorhies Labbe, James P. Lambert, Brame, Bergstedt, David Fraser, for defendant-appellee.

Before DOMENGEAUX, YELVERTON and KNOLL, JJ.

YELVERTON, Judge.

For the reasons given in Guillot v. Sandoz, 497 So.2d 753 (La.App. 3rd Cir. 1986), the judgment of the trial court finding no liability on the part of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and the State of Louisiana is affirmed. Further, we affirm the judgment of the trial court awarding plaintiff-appellant Alvin Vice damages in the amount of $80,403.91. Vice is to pay the costs of this appeal.

AFFIRMED.