Williams v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

GLADNEY, Judge.

Plaintiff, John Morrison Williams, seeks recovery of damages for personal injuries and loss of property arising from an automobile collision which occurred in the intersection of Girod and South 4th Streets,, in Monroe, Louisiana, on the morning of November 26,1960. After a trial on the merits, the trial court rendered judgment holding that the actions of the defendant, Mrs. Maude O. Sims, the driver of the vehicle insured by defendant, were entirely free of negligence and that the last clear chance or discovered peril doctrine invoked by plaintiff, was without application.…