Acosta v. Smith

The above two cases were consolidated for the purpose of trial, but separate judgments were entered in each case. Both cases arose out of a collision between a Buick automobile driven by defendant, Mrs. Smith, and a truck owned by plaintiff, Acosta, on January 31, 1944, at the intersection of Europe and St. Charles Streets in the City of Baton Rouge. The truck was being driven by seventeen year old Virgil Braud, and Miss Ida Butler, a girl of about the same age who was in the employ of Acosta, was sitting in the truck with Braud, both of them engaged in picking up and delivering clothes to…