Hebert v. United States

CAILLOUET, District Judge.

In the early evening of April 28, 1936, just before dusk but with automobile lights *268burning, a fearful motor accident occurred on U. S. Highway #61, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, a short distance from Lutcher, La., and in the Parish of St. James. A truck owned by the United States of America and then and there being operated by' the Corps, of Engineers, War Department, through two employees of said government agency, who were acting in the course of their employment and within the scope of their authority, collided with a Ford sedan occupied by four of the…