Case ID: so2d_621/html/1189-01.html
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Author: {"author": "WILLIAM A. CULPEPPER, Judge Pro Tem.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lisa SAVANT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Steven S. BAILEY, et al., Defendants-Appellants.
    No. 92-1181.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
    June 30, 1993.
    Joffre Wendel Fusilier, for Lisa Savant.
    Edward M. Campbell, for State, Dept, of Transp. and Development.
    Gary James Beauchamp, for State, Dept, of Public Safety and Corrections.
    Before GUIDRY and WOODARD, JJ., and CULPEPPER, J. Pro Tem.
    
      
       Honorable William A. Culpepper participated in this decision by appointment of the Louisiana Supreme Court as Judge Pro Tempore.
    
   WILLIAM A. CULPEPPER, Judge Pro Tem.

This is a companion suit to Miller v. Bailey, et al., 621 So.2d 1174 (La.App. 3d Cir.1993), No. 92-1178 on the docket of this court. For the reasons assigned in Miller, the judgment of the trial court is reversed in part to assess -0- fault to the State, Department of Transportation and Development, the State, Department of Public Safety and Corrections, and Anthony Shane Richard; plaintiff Savant’s claims against them are dismissed. The judgment is amended to assess fault as follows: Stephen S. Bailey — 50%; Antonial K. Miller— 20%; plaintiff Lisa Savant — 17%, third persons (non parties) — 13%.

The quantum of the trial court’s award of $250,000 damages is affirmed. Accordingly, the judgment is amended to award $41,229.33 to Lisa Savant and against Anto-nial K. Miller only.

In all other respects, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

Costs in the trial court and of this appeal are assessed equally against the defendant, Antonial K. Miller, and Lisa Savant.

REVERSED in PART; AFFIRMED in PART; AMENDED and RENDERED.