
    Winifred WESTON, et al., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, et al., Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 91-137.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
    June 24, 1992.
    Durant, Pierce & Malone, A. Clay Pierce, Jr., Baton Rouge, for State, appellant.
    Anthony Fazzio, Lafayette, for Winifred Weston, appellee.
    Gerard B. Wattingny, New Iberia, for Brown, appellee.
    John F. Wilkes, III, Lafayette, for Wilkes and AM Specialty Ins., appellee.
    Before DOMENGEAUX, C.J., DOUCET, J., and PATIN , J. Pro Tern.
    
      
       Judge John A. Patin, retired, participated in this decision by appointment of the Louisiana Supreme Court as Judge Pro Tempore.
    
   JOHN A. PATIN, Judge Pro Tern.

For the reasons given in the companion consolidated case of Brown v. Department of Transportation, 604 So.2d 99 (La.App. 3d Cir.1992), the judgment of the trial court is affirmed at the cost of the appellant.

AFFIRMED.  