Harper v. Holmes

DREW, Judge.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Harper and their minor child, represented by her parents, instituted this suit to recover damages against E. Claude Holmes. The damages arose out of a collision of a car driven and owned by Holmes with the rear end of a wagon, owned and driven by Clyde Harper, and in which his wife and child were riding. The collision occurred on a straight road after dark, on August 13, 1937.

The facts are as follows:

Clyde Harper was driving his wagon in a northerly direction on the highway leading to Oak Grove in West Carroll Parish. The wagon was loaded with 16 bales of hay…