Mercer v. Rosenblath

The plaintiffs sue the defendant for damages for the benefit of their. 17 year old daughter, who was injured by being run into by defendant’s motor truck on the sidewalk of one of the streets of the city of Shreveport.

The case was tried by a jury which rendered a verdict in plaintiffs’ favor for $2,000 and which was approved by the trial judge. The defendant appeals, and the plaintiffs by answer have asked that the judgment be increased.

The plaintiffs lived in Baton Rouge, and their daughter was a typist and was employed in the clerk’s office of Caddo parish. She boarded on Hamilton street in…