Labit v. Standard Motors Finance Co.

The plaintiff sues the defendant for having run into and damaged his automobile.

The plaintiff alleged that on December 28, 1926, at about 10 o’clock at night, he was driving his automobile up the Jefferson Highway near Narco, Parish of St. Charles, left bank, keeping to the right-hand side of the road; that he saw defendant’s ear approaching him on said road at a high) rate of speed on the wrong side, of road; that plaintiff pulled his car to the right until his wheels were almost in the ditch and slackened his speed, leaving some twenty feet of roadway on his left side for defendant’s car to…