Soileau v. Manuel

ELLIS, Judge.

On April 2, 1956 at about four or four thirty P.M. the plaintiff was driving his truck on a gravel road a short distance south of the town of Ville Platte, in the Parish of Evangeline in a westerly direction and going around a curve which turned in a southwesterly direction, when a truck belonging to the defendant, Ash-land Manuel, and being driven by Gilbert Thomas, a minor approximately 18 years of age, in an easterly direction collided with the plaintiff’s truck. The case was duly tried and the district court dismissed plaintiff’s suit on the ground that the latter was guilty…