Legal Opinion
Barzare v. Transit Casualty Co.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided February 8, 1989No. 87-1187PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
GUIDRY, Judge.
Defendants appeal as excessive a jury award for damages sustained by plaintiff in a vehicular accident. We amend the award.
This suit was brought by plaintiff-appel-lee for damages allegedly sustained in an automobile accident which occurred on February 18, 1985, east of Ville Platte, Louisiana, on U.S. Highway 167. One of the appellants, Keith Mattocks, while operating a truck in the course and scope of his employment with Alexandria Petroleum Company, Inc., rear-ended a pickup truck which was owned and being operated by the appellee, Elridge Barzare.
Prior to trial, appellants…
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