Fontenot v. State Farm Mutual Insurance

HOOD, Judge.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wayne Fontenot claim damages for personal injuries sustained by them as a result of a motor vehicle collision. The defendants are the Evangeline Parish Police Jury, Mrs. Marsaleet Jack and the latter’s insurer, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. Judgment was rendered by the trial court in favor of defendants. Plaintiffs appealed.

The issues presented are whether Mrs. Jack or the Police Jury were negligent, and if so, whether plaintiff Fontenot also was negligent.

A companion suit arising out of the same accident was instituted by Mr. and Mrs. Jack…