Callais v. Allstate Insurance Co.

COVINGTON, Judge:

Late at night on December 1, 1972, Lloyd Joseph Guidry and his wife, Carol Ann Naquin, had an unwitnessed, unexplained, one-vehicle accident on Louisiana Highway 1, just below Golden Meadow, Louisiana, wherein the vehicle left the roadway, hit a utility pole cutting it in two, and came to rest in a bayou. The road was dry, the weather clear, and there was continuous street lighting in the area. Mrs. Guidry died in the accident; Mr. Guidry died some ten days later without regaining consciousness. He had just celebrated his nineteenth birthday and she was still eighteen. Their…