Emmco Insurance Co. v. Guidry

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiffs, Wallace S. Knight, and his subrogee collision insurer, Emmco Insurance Company, instituted this suit against the defendant, Sidney L. Guidry, endeavoring to recover the sum of $343.90,1 representing property damage incurred by the Knight vehicle as the result of defendant’s negligence in ignoring a red traffic light at the intersection of Poydras and S. Peters Streets and colliding with an automobile driven by Reginald Knight, the son of the first named plaintiff.

The defendant answered and denied negligence, and in the alternative, pleaded the contributory negligence…