Mitchell v. State Farm

J2SHORTESS, Judge.

This case arises out of a tragic car accident at an intersection of two rural highways in Tangipahoa Parish, resulting in the deaths of three teenage boys and the serious injury of others.

September 15,1990, was a clear and sunny day. At approximately 6 p.m., Bradley Jackson and his two friends, Stacey Mitchell and Darren Morgan, set out toward Hammond to attend a friend’s birthday party. Three more friends followed Jackson, who was driving his mother’s pickup truck and leading the entourage through a back-road route to Hammond.

At about the same time, Don Rodrigue left his…