Legal Opinion
Wolfe v. TOWN OF HOMER
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 15, 2009No. 44,086-CAPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
pThe plaintiff, Perry Wolfe, appeals a judgment in favor of the defendant, Town of Homer. The trial court granted the defendant’s motion for involuntary dismissal, finding that the Town of Homer was not vicariously liable for the acts of the co-defendant, Thomas Ridley, Jr. For the following reasons, we affirm.
FACTS
On June 6, 2005, Perry Wolfe entered a scrap yard located on land owned by the Town of Homer (“the Town”) to obtain sawdust. As Wolfe was shoveling sawdust into a trash can, Ridley approached and said that Wolfe could not take the sawdust without permission and that he needed to…
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