Thigpen v. Mangin

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Charles C. Thigpen, owner and operator of a 1941 Oldsmobile, instituted this suit endeavoring to recover the sum of $297.49, representing property damages in*317curred to his automobile on September 13, 1948 at 7:30 a. m. by virtue of a collision in the ascending inbound intersection of Esplanade Avenue and N. Tonti Street, with a 1948 Chevrolet, owned and operated on the morning of the accident by the defendant, J. W. Mangin.

Defendant answered denying that he was guilty of negligence in the premises and, in the alternative, pleaded contributory negligence. Defendant…