Steadman v. Wallace

This is a suit by a guest for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained as a result of an intersectional automobile collision at the corner of Louisiana and St. Charles ave*561nues in the city of New Orleans on January 8, 1926, at about 7:30 o’clock p. m. The petition charges that the defendant was guilty of negligence and carelessness in operating his automobile at an excessive rate of speed at about fifty or sixty miles an hour.

In his answer the defendant denied that he was at fault, and averred that the accident was caused solely through the negligence of the plaintiff’s…