Case Name: Mrs. Linda Lou HARDY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CUMIS INSURANCE SOCIETY, INC., Defendant-Appellee
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1976-05-26
Citations: 333 So. 2d 420
Docket Number: No. 5330
Parties: Mrs. Linda Lou HARDY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CUMIS INSURANCE SOCIETY, INC., Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before CULPEPPER, DOMEN-GEAUX, WATSON, GUIDRY and PAVY, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 333
Pages: 420–421

Head Matter:
Mrs. Linda Lou HARDY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CUMIS INSURANCE SOCIETY, INC., Defendant-Appellee.
No. 5330.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
May 26, 1976.
Rehearing Denied June 30, 1976.
Writ Refused Sept. 24, 1976.
Ronald R. Thompson and D. Ross Banister, Wm. W. Irwin, Jr., Jerry F. Davis, Johnie E. Branch, Jr., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.
E. M. Nichols, Lake Charles, for Linda Hardy.
Baggett, McClain & Morgan by R. Scott McClain, Lake Charles, for .plaintiff-ap-pellee.
Mayer, Smith & Roberts by Caldwell Roberts and Walter Hunter, Jr., Shreveport, for defendants-appellees.
Before CULPEPPER, DOMEN-GEAUX, WATSON, GUIDRY and PAVY, JJ.

Opinion:
PAVY, Judge.
This is a companion case to Jocelyn Ardoin et al v. State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, La.App., 333 So.2d 412 (Appellate Docket No. 5329) in which a separate judgment is being rendered by us this date.
For the reasons stated in our decision in the companion case, the judgment appealed in the present matter is affirmed as to the liability of the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, and it is reversed insofar as it rejected the demands against Cumis Insurance Society, Inc. and Julius Henry. It is now ordered, adjudged and decree that there be judgment herein in favor of plaintiff, Mrs. Linda Lou Hardy, in the full sum of $25,-000 and against State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, Cumis Insurance Society, Inc. and Julius Henry, in solido, with legal interest from date of judicial demand until paid and for all costs of these proceedings in the trial court. All costs of this appeal are assessed to defendants, Cumis Insurance Society, Inc. and Julius Henry.
AFFIRMED IN PART AND REVERSED IN PART AND RENDERED.
CULPEPPER, J., concurs in part and dissents in part and assigns written reasons.
DOMENGEAUX, J., concurs in part and dissents in part and assigns written reasons.
GUIDRY, J., concurs in part and dissents in part for reasons assigned by DOM-ENGEAUX, J. and both voted for rehearing.