Scully v. Gautreaux

DUFRESNE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Elizabeth Scully, plaintiff-appellant, from a judgment in a jury trial apportioning 45% of the negligence to her in a parking lot accident wherein she was run over by a backing motorist. Because we find that the decision of the jury was manifestly erroneous in not finding the defendant motorist 100% at fault, we amend the judgment to so read.

The undisputed facts are these. On the night of the accident, Scully and Tom Lan-thripp, an acquaintance, had just left a lounge, and were walking through an adjacent parking lot. Scully was walking faster than…