Chaney v. Cunningham

COVINGTON, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs, Merlyn T. Chaney and Virginia S. Chaney, from a judgment in favor of the defendants, Frankie Cunningham and South Central Bell Telephone Company, dismissing the plaintiffs’ suit at their costs. The basis of the dismissal was that the contributory negligence of Virginia Chaney barred recovery.

The evidence presented at the trial established that the accident in question happened on March 19,1976, at about 4:00 p. m. on the Gulf States Road in front of the Ethyl Plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Frankie Cunningham, an employee of South Central…