Guidry v. Teche Transfer Co.

An automobile omnibus, operated by Teche Transfer Company, Inc., in which were passengers for hire, plaintiffs Emile J. Guidry and his wife, Mrs. Salina Albert Guidry, their child, and Mrs. Goulas and L. B. Dixon, ran off the highway and down an embankment into a ditch and overturned.

There was considerable water and soft mud in the ditch and Mr. and Mrs. Guidry’s child came near being suffocated in the mud and water, but escaped serious injury. Mr. and Mrs. Guidry and L. B. Dixon were more or less bruised, Mr. Dixon suffering the greatest injury, but both Mr. and Mrs-. Guidry were injured in…