Burton v. Southwestern Gas & Electric Co.

GLADNEY, Judge.

This suit was consolidated for trial in the lower court with that of Mrs. Lola Poland Burton v. Southwestern Gas and Electric Company, La.App., 107 So.2d 62, and involves substantially the identical issues of law and fact. Both suits arise out of an automobile accident which occurred on February 5, 1957, near the intersection of Burlingame and Seventieth Streets in the City of Shreveport, Louisiana. Mrs. Burton, at the time of the accident, was riding in a Ford sedan owned and driven by her son, James E. Burton, who was then nearly eighteen years of age.

This suit is on behalf…