Pickens v. St. Tammany Parish Police Jury

COVINGTON, Judge:

This is a suit arising out of an accident which occurred on the Ben Thomas Road (called Cooper Road in the petition) in St. Tammany Parish on Monday, June 29, 1970, at about 6:45 o’clock A.M.

Mrs. Pickens was driving her husband to work in their 1962 Chevrolet truck, proceeding westerly on said road, when the vehicle allegedly hit a “deep culvert” or “open gully” in the road, resulting in injuries to both parties, and expenses incidental thereto.

The defendant Police Jury filed an exception of no right of action based upon the doctrine of sovereign immunity. However, by House…