Cavalier v. Peerless Insurance Co. of Keene

ELLIS, Judge.

This is an action by a prison inmate at Angola against Peerless Insurance Company, the public liability insurer of all vehicles owned and operated by the penitentiary. The facts surrounding the occurrence of the accident are not disputed and may be briefly summarized as follows:

Plaintiff had been assigned to a work detail and was a passenger in a two wheeled rubber tired cane buggy or trailer being pulled along a gravel road within the bounds of the State penitentiary at a speed of about IS to 18 miles per hour by a farm tractor. The buggy was joined to the tractor by a steel…