Krake v. Exxon Co. USA

CURRAULT, Judge.

This appeal originates in the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson, Division “N”, wherein the Honorable James L. Cannella rendered judgment in favor of plaintiff Terri Krake and against defendants Exxon Company, U.S.A. and Loyal Vern Hoover, in solido, in the full amount of Two Hundred Twenty-Eight Thousand, Six Hundred Sixteen Dollars ($228,616). We affirm.

Terri Krake, a Jefferson Parish deputy sheriff, was on road duty during the early morning hours of July 28, 1981 when she received a dispatch to go to the scene of an overturned gasoline tanker. Loyal…