
    Jean C. RYDER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CASUALTY RECIPROCAL EXCHANGE, et al., Defendants-Appellants.
    No. 85-216.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
    April 9, 1986.
    Writ Denied June 6, 1986.
    John W. King and Rick Albright, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellants.
    Robert W. Thomas of Thomas & Hardy, John L. Van Norman, III, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellee.
    Logan Nichols, Jennings, Onebane & Associates, Dennis Dois, Lafayette, for defendant-appellee.
    Before LABORDE and YELVERTON, JJ., and FONTENOT, J. Pro Tern.
    
    
      
       Judge H. Ward Fontenot of the Thirty-Eighth Judicial District Court participated in this decision by appointment of the Louisiana Supreme Court as Judge Pro Tempore.
    
   YELVERTON, Judge.

For the reasons assigned in the consolidated case of Royle v. Casualty Reciprocal Exchange, et al, 486 So.2d 271 (La.App. 3rd Cir.1986), rendered this date, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed. Defendant-appellant, State of Louisiana, through the Department of Transportation & Development, is to pay the cost of this appeal in the amount of $1,081.20.

AFFIRMED.  