Legal Opinion
Gaines v. Hardware Mutual Casualty Co.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided March 20, 1956No. 4190PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TATE, Judge.
Plaintiff Gaines appeals from judgment after trial dismissing his claim for $201.09 property damage caused when his car struck a truck stopped on the highway after dark.
The accident occurred on a straight stretch of open highway near Claiborne, La., just after dark. Both plaintiff-Gaines’s car and the truck owned by defendant’s assured were headed north. The right front of the Gaines car struck the left rear corner of defendant’s truck, moving the latter just 1-3 feet forward, and damaging it very slightly. Plaintiff’s 1947 car was a total loss. It had been raining hard earlier in…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Gaiennie v. Cooperative Produce Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1940
- White v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1953
- Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. SaiaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1937
- Herget v. SaucierSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1953
- Geoghegan v. Greyhound CorporationSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1954
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Lewis v. QuebedeauxLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1961
- Fontenot v. LaFleurLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1960
- Badeaux v. Patterson Truck Line, Inc.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1971
- Frey v. Central Mutual InsuranceLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1963
- Ramsey v. LangstonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1962
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