Peerless Insurance Company v. Joan Schnauder and Patricia Schnauder, Thru Joyce Schnauder Ernest, Their Next Friend

JONES, Circuit Judge.

Suit was brought under the Louisiana Direct Action Statute 1 by the appellees, Joan Schnauder and Patricia Schnauder, against the appellant, Peerless Insurance Company, the insurer of Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, under a public liability policy. The appellees, who were plaintiffs below and who will be so designated here, claimed damages for the death of their mother as a result of a collision betwen a Jeep owned by Charity Hospital and driven by its employee, William Ganaway. Peerless made a motion for a directed verdict at the close of the plaintiffs’ case…