Scruggs v. McCraney

SWIFT, Judge.

This appeal has been taken by defendants, Mack H. McCraney and his public liability insurer, United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, from an adverse judgment based on a jury verdict awarding damages to plaintiffs, Mrs. Peggy S. Scruggs and her husband, William M. Scruggs, Jr., after entry of a remittitur with plaintiffs’ consent as an alternative to a new trial.

The suit arose from an accident that occurred on Louisiana Highway 1067 in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, in the early afternoon of August 12, 1967. Involved therein were the Scruggs’ Chevrolet two-door sedan, operated…