Ernesto v. Gutierrez

This is a suit to recover property damages alleged to have resulted from an automobile collision on the public highway in St. Bernard parish on May 11, 1929, about 4 o’clock p. m., between the plaintiff’s DeSoto sedan car and the defendant’s Essex automobile.

The petition alleges that the defendant was guilty of negligence in operating his car at an excessive rate of speed and in suddenly swerving from the right to the left-hand side of the road, where he came into collision with the plaintiff’s automobile.

Defendant in his answer avers that he attempted to stop his automobile and due to the…