Legal Opinion
Rogers v. Daigle
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 3, 1994No. 93 CA 1523PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
12FOGG, Judge.
This appeal from a judgment dismissing the plaintiffs’ suit involves the issue of whether the owners of a brick mailbox on the *760shoulder of a highway and the State of Louisiana, Department of Transportation & Development (DOTD), are liable to the plaintiffs in negligence for the death of their son, a passenger in a vehicle which crashed into the mailbox.
The plaintiffs, Steve and Shirley Rogers, filed a wrongful death suit seeking damages for the death of their twenty-one year old son, Scott. Rogers was killed on February 24,1991, while a passenger in a car driven by Lane Daigle,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Stobart v. State Through DOTDSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
- Chaney v. National RR Passenger Corp.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1991
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