Mrs. Virginia Kelly, Curtis Melancon, Henry Melancon, Jr., Mrs. Ella Lovig, and Lynn Melancon v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment sustaining the defendant’s motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s action for the wrongful death of Mrs. Lillian Melancon Adams. The complaint alleged that on January 15,1959, Mrs. Adams was a guest passenger in an automobile operated by her husband, Andrew P. Adams; that “the automobile was caused to be in collision with a truck, when the automobile went into the opposite and oncoming traffic lane”; that Mrs. Adams’ husband “negligently failed to keep a proper lookout ahead, to maintain his automobile under proper control, to stay in his own…
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