Baker v. Landry

WATSON, Judge ad hoc.

This is an action for damages for wrongful death. The plaintiffs, Mrs. Emma Baker, widow of George Baker, and the children of George Baker, claim damages from Eli Landry and his automobile liability insurer, Stonewall Insurance Company of Birmingham, Alabama. Eli Landry is named defendant as the father of Barry Landry, who is alleged to be an un-emancipated minor.

*493Plaintiffs’ petition alleges that on September 27, 1970 at about eight p.m. Barry Landry was driving a Mustang automobile on Louisiana Highway 10 when he undertook to pass a vehicle ahead and struck the deceased,…