Legal Opinion
Johnson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 16, 1999No. 31,992-CAPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
I,WILLIAMS, Judge.
In this personal injury action arising from two automobile accidents, the plaintiff, Jewel Johnson, appeals the trial court’s judgment allocating 90% of the fault in causing the accident to a phantom driver, and 10% of the fault to one of the defendants, Marcel St. Marie. For the following reasons, we affirm.
FACTS
On December 15, 1996, on a rainy evening, Marcel St. Marie was traveling west on Milhaven Road in Monroe, Louisiana, when an unknown driver abruptly changed lanes directly in front of St. Marie and then suddenly applied the brakes, causing St. Marie to run into the…
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