Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company v. James A. Morgan

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Morgan was on a motorcycle, with two-passengers, heading north on Highway 79 in Haynesville, Louisiana. Crump, appellant’s insured, was backing his. truck, also pointed north, onto Highway 79 from the left side of the road. Morgan’s motorcycle and the back of Crump’s truck collided. Morgan and the two passengers, Birdwell and Burrow, were injured.

Birdwell and Burrow each sued appellant, Southern Farm, in a Louisiana dis triet court. Southern Farm defended on the ground of contributory negligence of the plaintiffs in the following particulars: (a) riding without lights…