Guercio v. State

Under authority of Act 335 of 1942, the plaintiffs brought this suit against the State, through the Department of Highways to recover the sum of $850 as damages on account of the alleged negligence of a driver of one of the Highway Department trucks in running into and damaging a Ford car while it was parked on private property off the highway on November 27, 1941, about fourteen miles from Plaquemine. The sum of $500 is claimed as damage to the Ford car and the sum of $350 as damages for the loss of the use of the car. The latter item of damage has been abandoned, and as the defendant does…