Travelers Insurance Co. v. Wascom

REID, Judge.

This is a concursus proceeding brought by Travelers Insurance Company and involving the same legal question presented to this Court in the recently decided case of Canal Insurance Company v. Wascom et al., La.App., 148 So.2d 89.

On September 9, 1959 a truck owned by Henry E. Blackwell and operated by Willie E. Jenkins collided with an automobile owned and operated by Elmer Lloyd. As a result of the collision Elmer Lloyd, Joseph B. Hope, Leland Henley and Ernest R. Sumrall were killed and Louis Wascom Jr., was seriously injured.

Suits were filed by the survivors of the parties killed…