Bodin v. Dauphine

CHIASSON, Judge.

This is an appeal by Larry D. Bodin, plaintiff-appellant, of a judgment rendered against him and in favor of Gilbert Dau-phine, Sterling Sugars, Inc. (Sterling), and American manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company, defendants-appellees, denying his tort claims resulting from an automobile accident on April 30, 1974. The accident occurred when plaintiff, driver of a 1964 Volkswagon, attempted to pass Sterling’s farm tractor driven by Dauphine on Louisiana Highway 317, a hard surface road from Bayou Sale to Franklin, Louisiana. Both vehicles were west-bound at the time the…