Bazanac v. State ex rel. Department of Highways

CHASEZ, Judge.

This suit was filed by plaintiffs-appellants Octave and Jeanne Bazanac, against the State of Louisiana, Department of Highways, appellee herein, and Raymond Concrete Pile, Division of Raymond International, Inc., and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, its insurer, for damage allegedly done to certain property owned by the Bazanacs, by pile-driving operations performed in connection with the building of a highway.

The plaintiffs’ suit was met by the state with an exception of governmental immunity, and the exceptions of no cause and no right of action. The exceptions of no cause…