Shephard ex rel. Shephard v. Scheeler

| xLANDRIEU, Judge,

dissenting.

Although the trial judge did a thorough job of reviewing the record made before his predecessor, I find his conclusion of law to be incorrect and his inference of fact to be clearly wrong. The record indicates that Scheeler did not maintain control of his vehicle and was, in part, responsible for the accident.

Scheeler was an inexperienced sixteen year old driver who, with two teenage friends, went for a drive to nowhere in the family pickup truck. After going off the road once in a near accident with a truck, which he claims forced him off the road, Scheeler…