Laster v. Chaney

At the time of the injuries at issue in this case, appellant, a young white man then 22 years of age, was employed in the government engineering department at Vicksburg, and appellees were the sheriff of Washington county, his deputy, and the surety on the bond of the sheriff. Oin the afternoon of Saturday, October 10, 1936, appellant left Vicksburg for Greenville, traveling alone by automobile. At a point near Longwood, in Washington county, appellant stopped at the home of a young lady with whom he had an engagement, and, after driving around for a while, they went out on the levee near…