Legal Opinion
Cookmeyer v. Langston
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 11, 1986No. CA-4570PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
487 So.2d 525 (1986)
Alice Marie COOKMEYER
v.
Thomas Paul LANGSTON and Zurich Insurance Company.
No. CA-4570.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
April 11, 1986.
Michael Patrick Regan, Metairie, for plaintiff.
Thomas L. Gaudry, Jr., Windhorst, Pastorek & Gaudry, Harvey, for defendants.
Before GULOTTA, SCHOTT and BARRY, JJ.
GULOTTA, Judge.
In this personal injury suit, defendants appeal on quantum only from a $54,186.00 jury award to a plaintiff with soft tissue injuries. We conclude the award is excessive and reduce it to $26,982.00.
On July 22, 1983, 20 year old Alice Marie Cookmeyer suffered…
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