Ducharme v. Smith

Mrs. Sam Evans died in Basile, Louisiana. While her remains were being carried from that place to Opelousas, for burial, a collision occurred between a Ford touring car belonging to plaintiff and a car of defendant. Plaintiff was riding in his car with his wife and baby. Mrs. Wilson Kelly was driving.

Plaintiff claims forty dollars and sixty cents ($40.60) damages alleged to have been caused to his car by the collision. He asks for judgment for that amount for himself, individually.

In the petition, in which the wife, a daughter of the deceased, is also plaintiff, it is alleged that the funeral…