Legal Opinion
Brown v. LeBeau
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 30, 1971No. 8418PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ELLIS, Judge.
This is a suit by plaintiffs Sherman L. Brown and Mrs. Alma Vallery Brown against defendant Carl J. LeBeau for the wrongful death of their son, Herman L. Brown, who died when struck by defendant’s automobile. From an adverse judgment, plaintiffs have appealed.
The only witnesses to the accident were the defendant, the deceased, and Charles Boudreaux, who was walking next to Brown when the accident happened.
Boudreaux testified that he and Brown were walking along the shoulder of the highway with their backs to traffic. He said that Brown was about 18 inches off of the travelled…
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