Duree v. State ex rel. Department of Institutions

TATE, Judge.

At about noon on October 27, 1954, a State ambulance was proceeding south on the Airline Highway, through the outskirts of Baton Rouge, when it ran into a westbound Chevrolet driven by Roy Larson at the Greenwell Springs Road intersection. As a result of this collision, Jack W. Duree, a front seat passenger in the Chevrolet, was killed. The present damage suit is by Duree’s widow, individually and as the tu-trix of the surviving minor child of the union.

Made co-defendants were: The State of Louisiana, through the Department of Institutions, which appeals from adverse judgment; the…