Legal Opinion
Breaux v. State
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 19, 1976No. 56707PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
326 So.2d 481 (1976)
Dolores Weathers Breaux, wife of, and Irvin BREAUX, Sr., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Relators,
v.
The STATE of Louisiana et al., Defendants-Appellants-Respondents.
No. 56707.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
January 19, 1976.
William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Robert C. Funderburk, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant-applicant.
David L. Morgan, Jr., Mandeville, for plaintiff-respondent.
TATE, Justice.
The plaintiff parents sue for the death of their son. Their boy was murdered while an inmate in the state penitentiary.
The court of appeal awarded them each ten thousand dollars general damages,…
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