Comer v. Travelers Ins. Co.

A fatal accident with tragic consequences to all persons involved gave rise to this lawsuit. The victim was a little girl, Dora Jane Comer, aged seventeen months and the only child, at the time, of Robert W. Comer and Mrs. Essie Christine Hicks Comer, his wife, plaintiffs in the suit.

At about 2:40 p.m. on July 10, 1943, she was run over by an automobile owned and being driven by Reverend Van M. Dykes, her uncle, while he was backing it out of the driveway at the Comer home, 917 Mayflower Street in the City of Baton Rouge, where he and his wife also resided with the Comer family. The child was…