Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Saia

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is an action ex delicto to recover property damages alleged to have been sustained as a result of the plaintiff’s Chevrolet coach running into the parked and unlighted truck and trailer of the defendants on U. S. Highway 90, above the town of Westwego, .in Jefferson parish, about 8 o’clock p. m., August 20, 1934.

The defendants filed exceptions of no right or cause of action on the ground that it affirmatively appeared from the allegations of the petition that the plaintiff’s employee was guilty of contributory negligence, because the sole and only reason assigned for not…