
    Melissa L. BENOIT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WAL-MART STORES, INC. and Thad Burleigh, Defendants-Appellees.
    Nos. 96-1013, 96-0981.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
    March 5, 1997.
    Elizabeth Ann Dugal, Christopher Leonard Zaunbrecher, Lafayette, Jo Ann Nixon, New Iberia, Kim Reginald Hayes, Crowley, Joslyn Renee Alex, Breaux Bridge, Lawrence E. “Tony” Morrow, Jr., for Mona Meche et vir., et al.
    John Goulding Swift, Lafayette, for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    
      Thomas Reginald Hightower, Jr., Lafayette, for Thad Burleigh.
    Alfred Frem Boustany, II, Lafayette, Peter David Guarisco, III, Baton Rouge, Howard Wallace Martin, James L. Brazee, Jr., Lafayette, Ted L. Ayo, Abbeville, Bret Christopher Beyer, Lafayette, for Annette Dupree et al.
    Before DOUCET, C.J., and WOODARD and GREMILLION, JJ.
   DOUCET, Chief Judge.

For the reasons set forth in the companion case hereto, Meche v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 96-0981 (La.App. 3 Cir. 03/05/97); 692 So.2d 544, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

AFFIRMED.

WOODARD, J., concurs.  