Laird v. Travelers Insurance Company

Although I arrive at the same result, I do not agree with some of the findings or the reasons assigned for the legal conclusion expressed. In my view the law and facts are as follows:

On November 22, 1968 Marshall Laird and his wife, Gracie, were traveling in their 1968 Dodge pickup truck in a westerly direction on Louisiana Highway 112 about 10.3 miles east of ÍDeRidder. He was driving, and when they reached a point where highway employees were constructing baffles in the roadside ditch, he pulled over to his right, or the north side of the highway, and stopped. He stopped to talk with, and…