Mallard v. State

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

The State and the Louisiana Highway Commission are impleaded as defendants herein under the authority conferred by Act No. 287 of the Legislature of 1938.

Plaintiff’s truck and trailer, heavily loaded with logs, on November S, 1935, collided with a truck of the Highway Commission, operated by its employee, J, A. Wright, on the Jonesboro highway, near Eros, in the Parish of Jackson. He was seriously injured in the collision and sues to recover a large amount of damages on account of such injuries, the pain and suffering incident thereto, and for physician’s and hospital…