Laughlin v. Sullivan

Plaintiff sued defendant for the sum of $233 damages, alleged to have been the result of an intersectional automobile collision. Defendant denied liability and pleaded contributory negligence. There was judgment in favor of defendant dismissing plaintiff’s suit as of non-suit and plaintiff has appealed.

The record shows that on February 15, 1928, at about 5:30 o’clock p. m., plaintiff’s wife was driving his Hudson sedan automobile on Third Street in the city of New Orleans, towards the lake. Third street runs from the river to the lake and Magazine street runs from uptown to downtown and there…