Creevy v. D. H. Holmes Co.

Recovery is sought by plaintiff to compensate him for injuries sustained, medical bills incurred, and loss of earnings, which resulted .when an automobile truck, owned by defendant and operated by one of its employees admittedly acting within the scope of his employment, struck plaintiff while he was crossing St. Joseph street in this city.

Plaintiff, a man sixty-two years of age, employed in the type-setting department of the Daily States, a New Orleans newspaper, at about 5:30 o’clock in the late afternoon was walking up the river side of Camp street on his way to his place of employment,…