Lasswell v. Matlack, Inc.

Nonie LASSWELL v. MATLACK, INC.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 21, 1988.

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1988-10-21

Relies on 527 So. 2d 1199 - Lasswell v. Matlack, Inc.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1988-10-21

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2003

14 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

¶1Denied.

¶2LEMMON, J., votes to grant. In this bifurcated trial, the judge assigned zero per cent fault to the Department, and the jury attributed seventy per cent fault to the driver. These conflicting judgments decided only seventy per cent of the fault. The court of appeal, 527 So.2d 1199, should have reconciled the conflicting judgments *105 on the basis of an independent review of the record, without resort to the manifest error rule. Since the judgments are conflicting, neither is entitled to be accorded the manifest error rule.