Legal Opinion
Melancon v. City of Lafayette
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 7, 1998No. 98-175PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
liAMY, Judge.
The plaintiff filed suit against the City of Lafayette, among others, asserting that the City was negligent in failing to properly maintain a traffic light within its control thereby acting as a cause of the intersectional collision from which she alleges injuries. The lower court granted a Motion for Summary Judgment filed by the City. Both the plaintiff and the driver of the other vehicle involved in the accident appeal. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
Factual and Procedural History
The interseetional collision at issue in this appeal occurred in Lafayette,…
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