Legal Opinion
Jenkins v. Jenkins
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 11, 1983No. 82 CA 1067PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PONDER, Judge.
Plaintiff appealed the general damage award rendered by the trial court for injuries incurred in an automobile accident. The only issue is quantum.
Plaintiff, a forty-one year old school teacher, was involved in a one car accident. The only defendant remaining in the suit at the time of the trial was Horace Mann Insurance Company, the omnibus insurer of her husband. The trial judge gave plaintiff judgment for $16,000.00 in general damages and $4,818.00 in special damages.
Plaintiff received three injuries as a result of the accident. The first was a fracture of a bone in her left…
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