Butler v. Houma Ice Co.

An accident between an automobile belonging to Henry Butler and a truck belonging to the Houma Ice Company, operated by one of its employees, within the scope of his employment, at about eight o'clock on the morning of July 5, 1939, at a point about 16 miles west of the City of Houma on U.S. Highway 90, gave rise to this suit. The defendants are the Houma Ice Company and the individual members thereof and its insurance carrier, Massachusetts Bonding Insurance Company.

Plaintiff alleges that during the morning of July 5, 1939, he was driving west on U.S. Highway 90 at the rate of about 35 or 40…