Hudson v. Provensano

LE BLANC, Judge.

"A Dodge sedan, owned jointly by Vincent Hudson and Mamie Lawrence, was, on ac count of some mechanical trouble, stopped on the Old Spanish Trail highway at a point just east of where it crosses the Irrigation Canal south of Chloe, in the parish of Cal-casieu. On each side of the point where the automobile was parked, guard rails extend about a half mile in each direction.

The parked car was pointing eastward. Provensano, the defendant, riding in his Ford truck with his chauffeur, Walter Ward, driving, was on his way to Houma, and was therefore traveling east also. His truck…