Legal Opinion
Stephens v. Natchitoches Parish School Board
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided November 9, 1959No. 44591PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FOURNET, Chief Justice.
Mrs. Claudia Beth Williams Stephens, whose husband, Searcy B. Stephens, was killed in an automobile collision between a car driven by him and a school bus operated by Sheppard Morris in the scope and course of his employment as a school bus driver for the Natchitoches Parish School Board, having obtained leave from the legislature to file suit 1 against the school board as an agency of the state, instituted this tort action to recover damages, individually, and on behalf of her minor daughter, Burt Devonne Stephens, alleging that the collision was caused solely by the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Duree v. Maryland Casualty CompanySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1959
- Hibernia Nat. Bank v. Louisiana Tax CommissionSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1940
- Lewis v. StateSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1945
- Mire v. Lafourche Parish School BoardLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1952
- Stephens v. Natchitoches Parish School BoardLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1959
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3Cited by42 opinions
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- Board of Comm'rs. of Port of New Orleans v. Splendour S. & E. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1973
- Pittman Const. Co. v. Housing Auth. of New OrleansLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1965
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