Fair v. Empire Fire & Marine Insurance Co.

SEXTON, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals a jury verdict which found that the defendant tortfeasor was at fault in a rear-end automobile accident but which also found that plaintiff sustained no damages in the accident. Plaintiff also complains that the district court assessed him with all costs of the proceeding below. We affirm.

On January 11, 1987, plaintiff and his girlfriend (now his wife) were stopped at the intersection of Louisiana Highway 789 and Louisiana Highway 5 in Keatchie, De-Soto Parish, when his vehicle was hit from the rear by a vehicle driven by defendant James E. Smith, Jr. At trial,…