Williams v. Schommer

GULOTTA, Judge.

We find no error in the trial court’s judgment awarding plaintiff $1,356.001 in an automobile damage suit and dismissing defendant’s reconventional demand.

Plaintiff’s version of the accident is as follows. At about midnight on September 2, 1977, Gerald Williams, the plaintiff, was driving in a westerly direction in the left lane, the one nearer the median, on the up-ramp of the North Claiborne Avenue Industrial Canal bridge.2 An automobile traveling ahead of him in the left lane suddenly veered to the right to avoid striking defendant’s automobile which was stopped in the left…