Tezeno v. St. Landry Parish Police Jury

DOMENGEAUX, Judge.

This is a tort case resulting from a vehicular accident which occurred on a narrow parish gravel road west of the town of Washington, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Plaintiff-appellant Dudley Tezeno, driving his 1966 Chevrolet in a northerly direction, collided with a 1973 Ford, owned by the State of Louisiana, which was being driven in the opposite direction by a State Trooper, Lee R. Darbonne. Plaintiff sued only the St. Landry Parish Police Jury, alleging generally that the latter governing agency was causally negligent in not properly maintaining the road and failing to…