Legal Opinion
Yolanda and Terrence Ballou, Etc., Lula Mae Leblanc, Etc., Cross-Appellant v. Henri Studios, Inc., Cross-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 25, 1981No. 80-1503PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
On the afternoon of June 14, 1977, an automobile traveling at approximately fifty miles per hour struck the rear of an eighteen-wheel tractor-trailer which was parked entirely on the right hand shoulder of a curved, divided highway in Beaumont, Texas. The driver of the car, Jesse Ballou, was killed instantly; Ballou’s sole passenger, twelve-year-old Leonard Herman Clay, was rendered unconscious upon impact and died two days later. The plaintiffs — Yolanda Ballou and Terrence Ballou, the children of Jesse Ballou, and Lula Mae LeBlanc, the mother of Leonard…
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- Grassi v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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