Robbins v. Weaver

YELVERTON, Judge.

The precise issue presented by this appeal is whether the State of Louisiana, Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), owed a duty to the deceased, Denise Rivera, in the circumstances of this case. She was killed when she drove from the parking lot of a livestock auction bam and was hit by an eighteen wheeler on U.S. Highway 71 in Natchitoch-es Parish. The duty claimed to have been owed by the DOTD was to prohibit parking on the shoulders of the highway in the vicinity of the private roads leading from the parking lot to the highway. The trial court held that no…