Legal Opinion
Bob v. Benoit
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided May 8, 1996No. 96-4PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JiDOUCET, Chief Judge.
The plaintiffs’ wrongful death and survival actions were dismissed pursuant to a motion for summary judgment. This is an appeal from that dismissal.
On June 3,1994, Oscar Willis was working at the port of Iberia, in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. Apparently in order to get out of the sun and believing that the rig was not being used, Willis sat under an eighteen wheel tractor-trailer rig owned and operated by Arthur Benoit, Jr. Benoit moved the truck and Willis was crushed to death. Suits were filed by Willis’ mother, Wilda Willis, and on behalf of his two minor children,…
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