Jens v. Jones

TERRI F. LOVE, Judge.

This appeal arises from a suit on damages resulting from a car accident. The trial court allocated seventy-five percent of the fault for the accident to one of the drivers, who was also a plaintiff, and the remaining twenty-five percent to the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Transportation and Development. We find that the trial court did not commit manifest error in its liability determination or fault allocation and affirm.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Danae Jens (“Ms. Jens”) was travelling eastbound on Interstate 12 in St. Tammany Parish in a…