Bates v. Hayden

McCALEB, Judge.

The plaintiff, Joseph A. Bates, instituted this suit to recover the sum of $39,144.15 as damages for the injuries he sustained on January 5, 1937, when he was run into and knocked down by a truck driven by a negro named Robert Barrett on the Jefferson Highway near Harahan, Louisiana. The defendants in the case are Barrett, the truck driver, Thomas H. Hayden, the alleged owner of the truck, and General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd., which is alleged to be Hayden’s liability insurance carrier. Plaintiff claims that the injuries he sustained in the accident…