PRINGLE v. WILLIAMSON CHEV., BUICK & PONTIAC, INC.

No. 17420-CA, 17421-CA.

480 So.2d 929 (1985)

Faces B. PRINGLE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WILLIAMSON CHEVROLET, BUICK AND PONTIAC, INC. and the Ohio Casualty Company, Defendants-Appellants. Albert GIBSON, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WILLIAMSON CHEVROLET, BUICK AND PONTIAC, INC. and the Ohio Casualty Company, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

December 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mayer, Smith & Roberts by Kim Purdy, Shreveport, for defendants-appellants.

Brown, Williams & Tucker by Jack A. Williams, Shreveport, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before HALL, C.J., and FRED W. JONES, JR., and SEXTON, JJ.


HALL, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellees, Faces B. Pringle and Albert Gibson, Jr. were awarded $5,507.00 and $2,900.00 respectively by the trial court as damages resulting from an accident when Gibson's truck, driven by Pringle, ran off Highway 1 north of Vivian in rural Caddo Parish. The trial court found that the steering wheel of the truck malfunctioned due to the negligent repair of an ignition switch on the steering column of the truck by defendant-appellant,...

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